conflicts. And we are forced to fund terrorist regimes who would like to see usdead.We willingly support an industry that has given usmass murder billionaires. Every gallon of gasoline ordiesel fuel that we buy props up people like HugoChavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Saddam Hussein,Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, Osama bin Laden,the so-called Saudi royal family, and even Vladimir Photos for the post officePutin. It doesn’t matter that three of these men arenow dead; the system will continue to churn out new monsters like a well-oiledmachine. Their wealth and power are directly derived from our use of gasoline,whether we buy their respective oil or not. The oil and gasoline market is not anopen, supply and demand marketplace. It is a tightly closed, tightly controlledfixed enterprise that doesn’t permit rogue competitors or independent action.Boycotts or restrictions on the purchase of oil from an especially insidious dictatorship are an irrelevant weapon; to the point that even threatening such action is a joke. If we refuse to buy oil from Iran, for instance, we still have to buyit from someplace. As we pull oil from the new source, a void gets opened thatmust be filled. The Iranian oil fills that void, and another country (customer) whodoesn’t share our sense of moral outrage rushes in to buy the Iranian oil – atthe same global market price. The other trick that the oil producers use is to selland/or ship their oil to a middlemen country, such as Canada or India, where itis re-labeled and invoiced, and sent to us. So, we the public, are the only onesnegatively affected.When General Motors lost its way ninety years ago the United States lost itseconomic and energy independence.Notes on the story:* My reason for calling Steven Rattner a “no-nothing” is best exemplified by thecriticism that he recently leveled at Mitt Romney, after Romney criticized theGM bailout. Rattner said, “If Mr. Romney disagrees, he should come forwardwith specific names of willing investors in place of empty rhetoric," Rattnerwrote. "I predict that he won't be able to, because there aren't any."While I agree that there were probably no willing investors to bail out GM – theywould have had to be insane to do so – Rattner (Obama) should have forcedthe oil industry to come to GM and Chrysler’s rescue. How would he have forcedthem to do it? Simple, he would have said the following: “Either you provide thefunds or we withdraw our military and you have to provide your own protection
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