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re: Conflict with ISIS is also about OIL
Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:40 pm to cwill
Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:40 pm to cwill
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No we can't. I don't know why people think this is true or viable. Oil is a world commodity and loss of any significant source will affect us directly and indirectly. Prices here and around the world will sky rocket and severely impact the world economy if the ME oil supply is compromised.
If X supply is eliminated in the Middle East and X supply is gained in North America, does the price per barrel skyrocket?
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Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:43 pm to Golfer
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If X supply is eliminated in the Middle East and X supply is gained in North America, does the price per barrel skyrocket?
Hey bud, I love the shale revolution, the success story of the current domestic upstream energy boom, it's what I do. That being said, as good of a story as it is, it will never be good enough to replace the ME supply or reserves. That's just a fact.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 9:51 pm to cwill
Fair enough. I'm generally ignorant on this but I know SA produces 12 or so % of the total current output, with the US at like 9%. Just seems like were closer to matching and exceeding them.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:00 pm to Golfer
We can't simply match the same amount, we'd have to replace. And note prices even with our boom and consider the ramifications of losing 12% of the world supply.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:00 pm to cwill
Something isn't adding up, from a laymen's standpoint, on this gasoline pricing at the time. This is the most upheaval in the ME that I've seen in my long lifetime but yet the prices around here have dropped 20 cents over the last 2-3 weeks.
I've never seen this happen before. What gives?
I've never seen this happen before. What gives?
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:01 pm to cwill
Can we not double our output by opening up the shite that's off limits?
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:06 pm to Offshore Baller
If they are all about oil, why didn't they name themselves OSIL or OSIS?
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:07 pm to Golfer
No.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:13 pm to Offshore Baller
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I assure u I have a clue
I'm getting a HUUUUUGE Clue
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:23 pm to Offshore Baller
quote:Oil is a big part of it. So is the international banking cabal, and trillions in other natural resources that just happened to be - oh looky here what we found - "discovered" during the invasion of Afghanistan.
Do the douche bags in this country really believe this "new" group is about religious extremism just like the other "wars on terror" or when they going to pull their heads out of their arse and see this is about oil profits? Yeah we can kill and hunt them with spec ops etc. but can we at least call a spade a spade?
Specifically, the creation of a conflict with ISIS is shaping up to be nothing more than an excuse to go into Syria. We'll see. Should be interesting.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, a person would have to be borderline retarded to still believe, going on 13 years and counting, that the greatest and most well-funded military and intelligence agencies in the history of man aren't capable of routing out a bunch of thugs.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:32 pm to cwill
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The fact is the reason we are so involved in the ME is our national interest
It is the perpetuation of this lie that is the reason we have been dragged into this religious conflict.
If there were no oil in the ME, we wouldn't give a shite about them, and they wouldn't give a shite about us. They would just be fighting amongst themelves and no one would care.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:46 pm to cwill
quote:It's a big reason and it should disgust every free-market, freedom-loving American that certain business interests are so big and powerful that they dictate government policy.
The fact is the reason we are so involved in the ME is our national interest in the uninterrupted flow of ME oil.
What's the definition of Fascism again?
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