[Vwdiesel] Those anti-SUV ads

[Scott Kair]

>>Frankly, I'd really like to see Big Oil get put
>  in a serious hurt situation -- like all the gov't subsidies taken away
from
>  them, especially the military.

  >>Then I guess you'd prefer to pay MUCH more for gas, diesel, food,
clothing,
anything that's shipped, made from synthetics or uses petroleum in any
part of the production.
  Quite frankly I'm not in favor of a sudden change causing rapid inflation
and unemployment.  Seen it once before in the 70's.  Your scenario would
likely be much worse.<<

    Harmon, surely you're familiar with Daniel Yergin's >The Prize.<
     Breaking up the Seven Sisters, as the oil companies were once called,
would have been impossible even 60 years ago- at least without bloodshed on
an unimaginable scale.  Trying to break their privileges with an oil man in
the White House, an oil man as vice-president, and a corporate owned news
media dependent on oil & automotive industry advertising revenue defines
futility.
    The oil embargoes that led to the economic calamities of the mid and
late seventies weren't caused by the Justice Department trying to break the
oil companies but by oil producers forming a cartel to monopolize oil
supplies.  It did indeed cause inflation coupled with a recession, which
economists had previously claimed was impossible.  Like all cartels, though,
some members started selling on the sly and the cartel hasn't been that
effective since.

   >> If it weren't for those subsidies, especially
> the
>  gov't foreign policies and US troops in the Middle East, then 9/11 would
> never have happened.
>
  >>Changing that would make us Muslim?  The "order" they were working
from was to kill the infidels, so to speak, if they don't convert.  It's a
religious attack not a political one.  Well, kind of both since it contains
the co-mingling of church and state.<<

    Even a cursory review of the information available prior to 9/11 on
al-Qaeda would reveal that their primary interest isn't our souls.  They
wanted our troops out of Sa'udi Arabia, an end to the corrupt and/or secular
regimes in the muslim world,  and they wanted us to yank the leash on the
criminal Sternist regime in Israel.
    Converting or killing us barbarians wasn't on their agenda, except for
missionaries sent to convert their heathen selves, or as what we call
collateral damage when we do it to someone else.
    The determining factors in what directly caused and facilitated the 9-11
attacks have yet to be discerned, and will be well concealed for decades.
The only certainty is that the terrorists learned their trade at our behest
and expense fighting the Soviets.  Those few serious journalists who stayed
with them in Afghanistan, such as Robert Kaplan, and warned that the
mujahedin were not the "freedom fighters" the CIA claimed,  and would one
day turn against us, were ignored.
    Scott Kair