RM> Along the same lines that brought us war in the middle east..
RM> They said something interesting on The West Wing last night.
RM> It's a TV show but usually the facts they state come from
RM> the real world.  They mentioned that, allowing for inflation,
RM> gas prices today are cheaper than they were in 1980, and that
RM> allowing for both inflation and the average wage, for most
RM> people gas cost double what it does today in the 1950's..
RM>
RM> Interesting if true..

Much interesting, yes. . .

RM> Then there are the other stories you have to wonder about.
RM> In recent years they've said that there are known oil
RM> deposits NOT in the middle east with enough oil to last
RM> the world at current consumption rates for the next
RM> hundred years or so..  (Russia and Canada's Tar Sands, etc.)
RM> But other sources say that we will start to run out of oil
RM> Everywhere in the next 20 years..

Yes, we have even more oil than the Alberta tar sands right here in mainland
BC, but 'they' are obfuscating this with debate about "offshore"
oil drilling!
:P

And then there are those that stand to profit from higher commodities prices
through fearmongering. . . :P

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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