What do I get for the goverment using my tax dollars and getting my army killed in Iraq. I want free gas!!!! So far nothing good has come from this war, not one thing.
2007-10-23 03:13:57 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It isn't free because the Bush family still has to make their profits from it! & if he brings the servicmen home, Haliburton won't be able to work there & they (Bush & Cheny) wont make any money, what is the matter with you? You don't know that? Those have been the facts for 7 years!
2007-10-23 03:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
The purpose of trying to gain control of Iraq’s oil is not to give out free oil and gas but to make higher profits for the oil companies. Controlling more of the source allows the oil companies to have more control of the prices. Saddam was acting up, manipulating the market, changing to petroeuros, threatening to do worse once the sanctions were lifted and, in general, upsetting the oil companies.
2007-10-23 10:28:26 · answer #2 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We don't own the oil. Oil companies are trying to force contracts with the Iraq government so they can sell it back to us. Of course this is backed by our current administration, this has been devastating in resolving issues in Iraq.
It is not too hard to see, just read between the lines, no media will jump out and tell you.
2007-10-23 10:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by Waas up 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Okay, terrible question. But first off, was the removal of Saddam from power a bad thing? You want free gas? I didn't know that we were harvesting gas in Iraq? What kind of gas by the way? Methane? Argon? I think we are more intrested in OIL, not gas.
So I assume you mean free gasoline. So you think all petrol stations should start selling their products for free because you are lazy and ignorant? What about the truckers who haul it? And the tankers that ship it? They all need to work for you, the lazy ignorant American.
2007-10-23 10:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by Trevor 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The Iraq oil law hasn't been signed yet. If the U.S. oil companies get their way and the Iraqis abandon their Constitution (which socialized their oil), you'll see cheaper oil but it still won't be free. Western oil companies are in the business of redistributing wealth from the second and third worlds to the aristocracy in the first world. Free oil doesn't accomplish that.
The only thing we've gotten so far is a slower fall in the dollar than we would've if Saddam had been able to succeed in his plan to sell Iraqi oil for Euros. One of Paul Bremer's first acts as Coalition Provisional Authority head was to mandate that all Iraq oil transactions were henceforth to occur in dollars.
2007-10-23 10:19:42 · answer #5 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
You get to live another day knowing some middle eastern madman bent on destroying the USA and anything having to do with Israel, will no longer be able to threaten us. Now I know to you, life is far less important than gasoline, but you asked...
2007-10-23 10:34:11 · answer #6 · answered by Scott B 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Right now the total amount of oil in Iraq owned by America is 0 %. When it is all said and done with the total amount of oil owned by the US in Iraq will be 0 %.
2007-10-23 10:18:36 · answer #7 · answered by rance42 5 · 6⤊ 3⤋
What gives you the idea we own any of Iraq's oil and which planet did you say you resided on?? Of course you want free gas and welfare and food stamps and free everything. Go get a job and quit whining.
2007-10-23 10:20:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Looks like that lib protest chant of "No blood for oil" is BS, since the US doesn't own the Iraqi oil !
THE IRAQI'S DO...YOU LIBERAL TROLL !
Get a job, buy some friends.
2007-10-23 10:28:40 · answer #9 · answered by commanderbuck383 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The U.S. doesn't own Iraqi oil. U.S. oil companies own the rights to Iraqi oil. U.S. oil comapnies are not the people, though some of the people own stock in U.S. oil companies. That is why gas prices are rising.
2007-10-23 10:23:41 · answer #10 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
man you are out of it. you thought the oil was supposed to be for you? get real. we get most of our oil from canada and mexico, which are a lot closer to home. that iraqi oil is being sold to the highest bidder. they pay a heck of a lot more in other countries. let me repeat, the oil is not for you. it's for the guys that put this deal together. these guys are into profit.
2007-10-23 10:21:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋