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Chinasaur
06-07-2004, 10:19 PM
The United States possesses less than five percent of the remaining global oil reserve, while we burn about twenty-five percent of the oil produced in the world.

More than half of our oil is imported, almost a quarter of it from the Persian Gulf.

According to research recently done by Harper's magazine, we import $19 billion worth of crude oil from the region each year, and spend another $55 billion of taxpayer money annually "safeguarding oil supplies" there.

Over seventy percent of the remaining world oil reserve lies under the soil of the Islamic nations of Asia, from the red sea to Indonesia.


Oh, and by the way....


It's running out.
Paratima
06-07-2004, 10:23 PM
As the sign says, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying atention."
Chinasaur
06-07-2004, 10:31 PM
Da BEEB say dis (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3777413.stm)

Oh ... and ... yeah ...

Anyone see what's happening in Sudan lately?

We gotta keep the world safe from Tyrants ... so ... we're going there next ...

Right George?


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Note to self. Does Sudan have proven Oil Reserves?
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Darkness Productions
06-08-2004, 12:13 AM
There was a quote in one of my school books that I really think weighs nicely here..


Who will guard the guards?

I can't remember off-hand who said it, but it seem relevant now.


Originally posted by Chinasaur
We gotta keep the world safe from Tyrants ... so ... we're going there next ...
wirthi
06-08-2004, 03:47 AM
Originally posted by Chinasaur [list=1]
Note to self. Does Sudan have proven Oil Reserves?
[/list=1] According to CIA Factbook (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html), oil is #1 export product. Don't tell that Mr. Bush. Or should we?
QIbHom
06-08-2004, 07:23 AM
According to CIA Factbook, oil is #1 export product. Don't tell that Mr. Bush. Or should we?

He knows. He lost a lot of money in the oil industry. He was a bit of a failure as a businessman.

The CIA World Factbook rocks, especially the paper version. Used it all the time when I was a reference librarian. It killed me to admit anything good could come out of the CIA, but they do good reference.
Scoofy12
06-08-2004, 11:49 AM
Originally posted by Darkness Productions
Who will guard the guards?

That quote was from the satirist Juvenal, in response to Plato's guardians in the Republic