good Idea Bob

Good thing the entire US economy isn't "Oil consumption based".

while we are at it, lets stop going to work, turn off the electricity
to our homes, stop buying food, stop drinking water(pumped using
electricity generated from oil), and taking any drugs made with
petrochemicals.

and lets throw in stop using fertilizers to grow food - which we
wouldnt need anyway, since without gasoline the stores would be empty.

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Funny thing happened while our Gov. has been fighting the war on the so
called terror. The rest of the world has pasted the United States in
everything. So we who are stuck with the problems our Gov. has brought on us
will just have to deal with the high prices we must pay. Think about that
come the next election.

That happens to be exactly what the invasion of Iraq was about --
securing the distribution of oil to us over China and India,
which have both been making overtures to the oil-producing
countries of the Middle East.

Only the Saudis were smart enought to accept the deal offered by the
U.S. decades ago -- they can keep on cutting off people's hands;
veiling and abusing women; doing whatever their Wahabi version of
Islam dictates-- as long as they keep the price of oil stable.
So much for spreading democracy in the Middle East!

US made the same overture to Saddam, but he was naive enough to think
that he has the right to  control his own oil, plus he wanted to deal
in euros rather than dollars.  You know what they say about "an offer
you can't refuse". He did -- and millions of suffering innocent Iraqui
civilians, not to mention our own dead and wounded, not to mention the
horror of the open-ended captivities at Abu Ghraib (sp) and Guantanamo
-- are the consequences.