Bring the troops back home along with the jobs

Posted by $ tomcatpilot21 12 years, 9 months ago to Business
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I have grown aggravated seeing more and more money poured into countries outside of the US. We need to stop funding wars and radical dictators trying to spread "democracy." I would propose a 5 year ban on any oil out of the Middle East and let them kill each other. We have more than enough oil here. We can drop the gas prices and boost the economy. Travel would sky rocket and every product shipped could be done so cheaper. Then when we do go back to the Middle East, we hold the power.


Is this possible or just my young mind running wild?


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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 12 years, 9 months ago
    I totally agree with you. To answer your question, no not possible and yes your mind is running wild because you've had a rational thought.

    I take it from your name you're a tomcat driver? Nice birds.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years, 9 months ago
    Greetings tomcatpilot21,
    It astounds that such low hanging fruit is overlooked. LionelHutz is correct. I remember decades ago learning that for national security reasons and the belief in a finite amount of oil running out by the eighties or nineties we should use everyone else's oil so we would always have strategic advantage...
    Drill baby drill!
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by LionelHutz 12 years, 9 months ago
    I think it's our unspoken policy to be the last one to run out of oil by buying it from everyone else and leaving our own resources untapped until absolutely necessary.
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  • Posted by Rocky_Road 12 years, 9 months ago
    This would take a rational energy policy, and a willingness to piss off the environ-MENTAL-ists.

    Only a Libertarian would take on both of those challenges!
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