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afterthought of propaganda and a ruse to fool the public along with the way too
many ersatz energy experts.
This inability to understand and recognize simple business precepts is a good
example of what I was referring to earlier when I wrote about the problem with
people who’ve had no real business experience. Ironically, John D. Rockefeller,
with his grassroots bottom-line business expertise, would probably have understood oil’s rise to dominance perfectly.
This is also another good example of how the public is being “gulled” by oil
industry conmen and shills who want to retard any effort for America to become
energy independent.
If you are interested in learning more about the history of how gasoline became
America’s primary engine fuel please read “The Rise & Fall of General Motors
and the Subjugation of the Industrialized World” (included in this book).
OIL DOES NOT FUND TERRORISM – HAH!
Bryce spends a considerable amount of time attempting to argue that our dependence on foreign oil has little or no real significance to the kind of global
terrorism that we have been subjected to over the past 30 or 40 years. First, as
I pointed out earlier, Bryce takes the position that since we can’t do anything
about needing oil that we will have to live with the consequences, as horrific as
they may sometimes be – you remember the “lie back and enjoy it” analogy.
Second, he does what Jerry Taylor of CATO Institute attempted to do on this
point and that is to mitigate the issue by virtue of the fact that it doesn’t require
all that much money to get the people who commit the acts of terrorism to do
them. So that the billion or trillions that go into the hands of the oil regimes
doesn’t mean anything because a mere $25,000 can be sufficient to bring about
a train station bombing or airline hijacking. In other words, Taylor and Bryce
argue, if the Saudis only had a profitable lemonade stand in the middle of the
thirsty desert that they would still be able to fund the World Trade Center attacks
(the first and/or second attacks).
I think this level of thinking is nothing short of insanity. That’s what I told Jerry
Taylor in 2010, and that’s what I’m telling Robert Bryce now. I contend that a
sane person would take the position that any money given to those who sponsor
terrorism is too much. I believe that any person with a working brain would say
“We must do everything to reduce our dependence on the product that keeps
these murderers in business. We must become energy independent.”
