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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo
Before anybody starts talking about peoples *right* to have a gasoline driven car, consider this. Does your right to a gasoline driven car also extend to military intervention into the oil producing regions of the world that succumb to war or political instability?
If people in the west want the right to drive gas driven cars, they have to realize this comes with the responsibility that when ether shit flares up in the Mid East, you've got to be prepared to go in and kill people. That's what the West had to do during the First Gulf War and it's what we're finding we have to do with Libiya. Whether we're defending a totalitarian monarchy or a democratic movement, only the oil matters.
Is the right to have a gas driven car worth being forced into a position where you have to fight for people regardless of how much they're morally worth defending?
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I'll answer that question.
The wars are not the problem, the problem rests with the "not in my backyard' attitude of Americans.
We have oil in the US, in fact
we have huge deposits.
We just haven't developed them into useful oil.