re: #469 Obdicut

Since the shift wouldn’t result in less money for the Arab nations, what the fuck would it matter?

They’d still be just as rich and powerful.

But they would not hold the economy of the USA hostage. You (and others) have eluded that they do.

IF the goal is to reduce the American economies dependence on “arab oil” then shifting imports of oil from those sources would achieve that goal.

If the goal is to make them less rich and less powerful then shifting imports of oil from those sources would not achieve that goal.

I thought the goal was reducing the American economies dependence on “arab oil”. AND yes there are other things we can do, but they would take a much longer time, and are less a sure thing.

Increasing the domestic production is also good for the economy for other reasons. A domestic oil producing company can’t just up and move an oil well and take the jobs to china like a television factory could.