Reply #4: To help maintain our energy policy of shipping oil from the ME. [View All]

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The US Defense budget is a taxpayer cost that should be billed to the oil companies who are simply filling up in the Arabian Gulf and steaming it over here. We, the taxpayers, are underwriting the protection plan needed for this business model to work. The USG should send Big Oil a bill for services rendered....and they'd have to pass it on to the consumer at the pumps...then you'd see a seachange in the consumer's attitude to our transportation choices.