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Old 09-27-2006, 08:42 PM   #60
xoxoxoBruce
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Originally Posted by glatt
True, but they are basing that message on the price of gasoline they see at the pump. The price of gasoline at the pump is not the cost of gasoline. It doesn't include the $100 Billion a year we spend in Iraq to keep the oil flowing. (Nevermind that it isn't working.) If the price at the pump was the true cost of the gasoline, they might send a different message with their wallets.
I don't buy it.
1. How is anything were doing in Iraq helping the oil to flow?
2. Our international escapades seem to be completely disconnected from anything the populace, say, do or feel.

Are you telling me if we didn't import oil we wouldn't be the world cop? I don't think that's remotely true.
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