Another run at peace in the Middle east

Pino, stop the excuses and post your sources.

Sources for what?????? My opinion???? Gimme a frig'n break. I'm 50 years old and have been reading like an MF all my life. I don't have to post references to have a frig'n opinion. If you're referring to my corrections to your crazy notion we don't need Middle Eastern oil, my 'references' include a lifetime of knowing better, and of course the geography books the state of Texas required me to use to teach Ninth Grade World Geography for years. Also, about a year ago I read a great, in-depth article in the "Economist" about our Mid-East oil addiction. But these are puny examples out of a thousand. You should know that. As I observed not too long ago, this place has been over-run by conspiracists. Keep your theories. They're all yours. AND......don't forget: I confessed to having conspired with Bush to pull off 911. You need not look any farther. I am the ONE. I DID IT.:no:

So you are not going to post a source for your assumption that without middle eastern bootlicking we will collapse as a nation? Didn't think so.

Like I said Pino if we cannot stand on our own without oil we deserve to collapse. Do you think America is so weak that if we cut our ties with the middle east all will return to the dark ages? Oil will run out one day or it will be so expensive big business's are going to have to come up with something else, hydrogen cars, vegetable oil cars ect.

Our entire way of life is founded on the automobile.

So what, automobiles do not have to run on gas. But because no one invests in alternatives hybrids and alternative fuel powered equipment are way out of our price range. I doubt we run out of oil in our life times but one day we will be forced to make a choice, either ride horses or come out with alternative fuels. We should just go ahead and cut oil out and become more efficient and self supporting. Even though we do not import all of our oil from the M.E. any way.

how can that be when our country was doing fine for 132 years before the popularization of the automibile by Henry Ford in 1908?

Sources for what?????? My opinion???? Gimme a frig'n break. I'm 50 years old and have been reading like an MF all my life. I don't have to post references to have a frig'n opinion. If you're referring to my corrections to your crazy notion we don't need Middle Eastern oil, my 'references' include a lifetime of knowing better, and of course the geography books the state of Texas required me to use to teach Ninth Grade World Geography for years. Also, about a year ago I read a great, in-depth article in the "Economist" about our Mid-East oil addiction. But these are puny examples out of a thousand. You should know that. As I observed not too long ago, this place has been over-run by conspiracists. Keep your theories. They're all yours. AND......don't forget: I confessed to having conspired with Bush to pull off 911. You need not look any farther. I am the ONE. I DID IT.:no:

8" today, answer the question.

I love my car and in no way could I justify our whole way of life being founded on something so silly as the automoblie.

I can find way more proof that our way of life is based on deceit and ignorance and perpetual violence.

I'm telling you don't know what you're talking about. The rise of the American Automobile Civilization is a major theme of contemporary American history. IT'S THE BASIS OF OUR ENTIRE ECONOMY. This is like screaming into a big, black, bottomless pit. Forget it.

Where on God's beautiful green earth do you get such ridiculous ideas?

Ignorance is a disease, you're contagious, GET HELP!

You know nothing about basic economics. Our entire economy is based on the automobile. GO BACK TO SCHOOL.

So what? The question at hand is if we tell the middle east to go suck a turd and keep their oil, are we as a society going to collapse? The answer to that qeustion is a resounding, wholehearted **** NO. Between the oil we could be drilling for, and the resources we already have not involving the middle east, AND expanded research and development of alternative fuels, we would not only survive, we would PROSPER.