This is the proven oil reserves in Iraq -

[Joe for Clark]

That is - of course - where it is going to blow up - you can see it on a map - about 20 miles south of Kirkuk - no crystal ball needed. 70% of the oil reserves are right there.

WE DON'T NEED THEM - damn it - forget the crap comming out about "corn" etc.. we DO have enough oil shale to run our cars for hundreds of years - let alone coal liquification. We just have to be prepared to pay 3 bucks a gallon - do you see the oil futures?? We are about to pay a lot more than that.

And you understand - if we did use those syns - not only do we not need the middle east - our money will STAY in the US - and we can give our people good jobs.

If we raised fuel standards - to the max - our cars still burn oil and will for a long time.

You know - Germany did this same thing - all those decades ago - same thing. And ran a war on two fronts and kept their economy going. This has been done.

If we planted every acre in corn in the US - developed every off shore possibility - it will not dent the problem. ANd then - how much food do we burn to do that??

It is not so green in the short run I guess - but you think - what are the consequences of not doing this - a third world war?? Cause if that is true - how much does being politically correct" even matter once your dead.

We have to have the short term solution - or we may never get to the long term problem.

Joe

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Something you may laugh at, something you may wonder at,

but definitely something that is hard to dismiss, a thing to be dreamt of, a magic to be hoped for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSg01EcVXI&mode=related&search=

[Joe for Clark]

2. I don't speak German - this will take forever to load with my

modem and I don't count on miracles.

Joe

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Sorry about that..... it is a vid on zero point energy, and if we ever

get to it, we'll be able to send all of our oil to the ME, cuz we simply won't need it.

[Joe for Clark]

4. Oh - it is ok.

Don't be sorry.

Maybe I am sorry - we should have moved on from oil by now as a society.

And we didn't.

Joe

[bbinacan]

5. You make a good point.

I'm a land/easement acquisition agent working in the Barnett Shale area (west of DFW). B/C of new technology we can safely and economically harvest the natural gas. For the small towns in this area it has been a boom. And US workers are getting well paying jobs.