Who is the World's Boss - the U.S. with huge military power OR the Arabs with the oil?

Question

The recent rise in GAS cost taxpayers $20 billion EXTRA - our politicians protect big oil and won't force refinery construction.

Answer 1

Actually we do have military and technical superiority but most importantly I think we have alot of food.

Answer 2

Big oil and the military complex have the power.

For anyone who keeps crying about drilling for oil in the US needs to do some research. It will take 10 plus years for these wells to be profitable at all and the amount they are projected to be able to pump is not a drop in the bucket as to what we use every day.

The oil companies have put off upgrading the refineries initially due to the fact they would have to follow stricter EPA laws and guidelines. These have since been lessened or repealed and the refineries still will not upgrade because it will cut their profit margin for a period of time. Why shut down and rebuild at a cost to them when they can run the old refinery and keep making money hand over fist.

Answer 3

Anyone who can type in Colonial Economy in Google will see that its not resources that counts, it's military and economical INFRASTRUCTURE. The Arabs can have all the oil in the world, and all it will take is a well placed nuke, and then the US has all the oil in the world. If you take a man with a bucket of oil, steel, gunpowder and rubber, and put him up against a man in a tank, but with LESS of those things, the man in the tank wins every time. Resources are only useful when they're made into usefull things. The power of the USA, as proven in WWII, and the Cold War, is the factory. Its why the Arabs will NEVER win, though they can be a royal pain in the a** sometimes, and why China is such a threat to the US.(sweatshops are more efficient).

Answer 4

Well since the price for a barrel of crude is less now than a year ago we can hardly keep blaming "big oil." The Speculators on Wall Street and the Wholesalers control pricing by market conditions.

Answer 5

Arabs may have oil but they don't have the ability to use it as leverage. Th Big oil and the military industrial complex are the Boss.

Answer 6

Perhaps if you liberals (I can only assume, forgive me if I'm wrong) would allow us to drill our own oil fields and take off the ridiculous additives to fuel instituted during Clintons administration, prices would come down. But, that is probably too practical for the democrats to consider, it's easier to blame big bad oil and Pres. Bush.

Answer 7

it doesnt cost taxpayers $20 billion extra...it cost anyone with a vehicle $20b extra....gas isn't free if you are on welfare and dont pay taxes.

Answer 8

the world bankers-----------silly