We are in Iraq which is one of the largest oil producers out there, why are we paying 3 dollars a gallon when we run that dump?
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ITS IN OUR HANDS OR NOT.WELL BIG COMPANYS KNOW THAT THE SMALL BUSSINESS OWNERS WILL BE BATTELING TO STAY AFLOAT AHA WALLMART LIKES THAT,ENRON STOCKS NOT FALLING.This is pure discrimanition against the working class,ONLY THE AFLUENT GET TO BE ON THE ROADS DURING THE PEAK GAS INCREASES.WHAT BETTER WAY THAN TO STRAND THE LESS DESIRABLES THAN TO PRICE THEM OUT OR OFF THE ROADS,MEAN WHILE THE DECENT FAMILYS WHO STRUGGLE TO MAKE A VISIT TO THERE LOVE ONES ARE FORCED TO STAY HOME MISSING THE HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL EVENTS THAT MAKE A FAMILY AFAMILY,BREAKING THE BONDS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE PROUD OF. i SAY WHO DO I CHARGE WITH DISCRIMINATION. oR ARE WE ALL LIVING IN A PRISON CAMP CONTROLLED BY THE ELITE WORLD GOVERMENT THAT HAS TAKEN ROOT SINCE bUSH SR AND SON HAVE TAKEN OVER AND 911.lETS SEE HOW HIGH OUR TAXES WILL GO UP SO THE LOCAL GOVERMENT WORKERS USE THER SUVS TO GO LUNCHING,LAUNDRYING.WHAT ARE THE INCREASES WITH THE AIRLINES?
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you're probably refering to the middle east.  I am not a subscriber to most theories on why american troops are there.  I don't think bush did it for the money; he did it as an economic attack on china.  China's growing economy and mass of people makes it  a huge threat to the american way of life, both economically and physically.  Their mass growth is highly dependant on oil, more so than our economy is.  Doubling, or tripling the cost of oil is a very effective assault on a massive country's growth while only lightly affecting america's economy.  That is, how many people do you know who have stopped driving?  An extremely low number of people have even reduced the amount they drive...  Prices of construction, shipping, and other things we take for granted have risen only very slightly.  Using oil is very basic in the technological chain, but to a county still essentially developing it's value is 10 times what it is to a fully developed country.  It has so much to do with politics and so little to do with oil...\n\nWhy we don't switch.  While it is a good point that the oild companies profit from not switching, it's so much more complicated than being a conspiracy of big oil companies against the country.  The cost of converting to an alternative fuel source would be large, incredibly large.  Keeping away from everything else that uses oil, big parts of idustry, and sticking only to transportation.  Every single car, truck, bus, bulldozer, some planes, in america would have to be replaced.  Ok, not too bad, could be done in 15-25 years.  But every person would have to accept the change and people in general don't like change.  Also, every single fueling station would have to change over, which is in the range of trillions of dollars in cost.  The technology must be established, accepted, and actually implemented.  On top of that, the entire country would have to agree as to which particular energy source we switch to; that's very difficult in it's own right.  This is a subject which can barely have the surface scratched on yahoo'o format.  It deserves, and has received, thousands of articles much longer than I care to write and much more technical than I can even pretend to understand without studying them in detail.  It's not a simple thing for a country which is entirely dependant on oil to just up and switch to something else.
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US doesnt' want to steal iraq's oil.  it needs to control the world trade in oil.  basially require all oil-producing countries to market their oil in dollars, effectively making american paper money redeemable in oil.\n\ncompliant arab regimes also re-invest hundreds of billions of dollars of oil profits in the united states.  if they're allowed to start selling oil in Euros they will invest their profits somewhere else and the US economy will suffer tremendously\n\nthat's why bush went to war with all these countries.  to maintain america's control over the oil trade.
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Exxon gives a lot of that to stockholders, taxes, building infrastructure, providing jobs, research and technology, grants, donations, etc, etc, etc.  Somebody's not sitting around counting money at your expense.  Stop feeling sorry for yourself.\n\nWhat war are you talking about?  The one that ended in victory a couple of years ago with the fall of Saddam?  I hope you are not confusing that with the U.S. helping a fledgling democracy with security against terrorists until they can take care of themselves.  What does that have to do with oil prices again?  By the way, those who think we went into Iraq for oil, where is all this oil we are supposedly getting?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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YOU MUST BE STUPIDEST SHEER IDIOT  MORON TO ASK THIS.. AMERİCA İS SERVİNG FOR THE BİG BUSİNESSES İN ıRAQ.. THEY steal the petroleum in ıraq and 2 percent of the money obtained from the sales of the oıl pays for the poor american losses.\n\nSee my answers and questions to get enlightened
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Look who's running the country...a bunch of oil freaks.  Everytime the price of oil goes up they are cashing in!  They don't want to come up with alternative fuel sources because there is no money in that for them.
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better called war of greed, there are no mass destruction weapons, Iraqis never complained about Saddam, Saddam is gone, why are we still bleeding money and good soldiers over there?\nit's not about the oil, it's bigger than that, it's about destructing a country so that we can rebuild it and send all our unemployed over there for jobs and double charge the Iraqi ppl for their construction bill, i saw a video by one of the insurgent groups of American soldiers going down the street shooting all the air conditioning units on the buildings!
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The pay for these jobs is much higher than in the states. Call Halliburton, they hire most of the civilians in Iraq.
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I am for the war and I am U.S. citizen.  I have been 100% behind it from the beginning.  Also, we never went into this for the oil.  Do people not watch the news?  Oil prices have been insane.  If we are taking all this oil, then why are we having to pay so much for it?
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well it is china (even japan said the US will lose if we figth china)\nwell it will just make more war but the real reason is that there is no point in putting money in a country when you can not take something back (ie iraq = oil)
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First off, The entire iraqi war on terror was in part to protect the oils assets. Which means the Bush family fortune.\nYes it is a scam. Why else would oil commpany executives and CEOs be questioned and put ontrial and even scolded by our congress. They are making "Not billions" but Trillions of dollars off of common people while our government fabricates things to protect the oil assets. Are they truly in danger? Who knows.\nIts one huge cover up. Europe is used to paying 6 dollars per gallon. So we don't get any sympothy from them at all. They say quite your snivveling. but the truth is we are the ones getting scammed big time! is there anything we common folks can do about it, probably not or at least I am not sure.
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Canada has a lot of oil. According to all the liberals, that is the only reason Bush invaded Iraq, so it makes sense that Canada would be next. Plus it's closer to home.
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Big oil=big corruption.\n\nThey need to be investigated and charged.
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It's not for the U.S.  \n\nIt's for U.S. oil companies.\n\nBig difference.\n\n\nAnyone who thinks that the decision to attack Hussein and the fact that Iraq sits on the second largest proven reserve of oil in the world had nothing to do with one another is naive.
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If Al Qaeda pays $100 a day, who do you think is funding this? We are by buying oil from Iran and the rest of the Middle East! Let's start drilling our own offshore oil!
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The last I looked an organization called OPEC decides what they sell oil for; so how you can you say we loot the middle east?  We pay for the products we purchase, and not once have we used our military to secure assets.  Looting is a poor choice of words.  If you live in another nation we buy products from - get your government or companies to charge more for it - but recognize our companies will just buy it cheaper somewhere else.
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There is no agreement on how much oil there is. Therefore, 'peak oil' is a meaningless concept.  Besides, the US media is only interested in attacking their political opponents.  They couldn't care less about facts.