You are president…or P.M.

[Yanny]

Oh yeah, lets use 2 million gallons of oil a day to fight some nation I don’t care about!

The Goverment has to educate both the Young and Old about alternative Energy. We’re going to have an energy crisis 10x worse than the 1970s one if this issue continues to Snowball.

[TG Moses VI]

The energy crisis you talked about is inevitable. Let’s just hope that we have able-bodied Leaders when the time comes to appropriately do something about it. Also, education must start now while we still have the time, if at that time in the future when things have already gotten out of hand it would’ve already been too late.

A likely candidate that I see in the next 20-25 years to replace the majority of our power generates that still run on oil and coal is the use of Nuclear fusion along with resurgence in Nuclear fission. Done right with adequate safeguards and those who won’t cut corners, hopefully we’ll never have an incident like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island.

BTW Yanny, didn’t quite get your 2 billion gallons of oil a day comment. Can you explain the story behind it?

[Yanny]

2 million, we fought Iraq over oil, and used millions and millions of gallons of oil every day to do it.

[TG Moses VI]

True, the M1 tanks we used in Desert Storm were huge gas consumers, not to mention the jet fuel our jet fighters required. But didn’t Saudi Arabia or/and Iran end up picking up the tab? I’m pretty sure one of those countries called for US foreign aid since Iran or Arabia would be the next likely target for the would-be victorious Iraqis in Kuwait.

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[Yanny]

Saudi Arabia was threatening to deny oil to us and ally with Iraq if we didnt come to their aid.

[Yanny]

Saudi Arabia was threatening to deny oil to us and ally with Iraq if we didnt come to their aid.

[TG Moses VI]

I’m not questioning if your above statement is true (certainly this wouldn’t be the first time, right?). What I would like to know if the Arab countries did indeed pay for the Desert Storm operation or at least a part of it. I hope that the whole cost was not passed onto American taxpayers.

[Yanny]

No, they didn’t pay directly. They offered oil for protection.

[TG Moses VI]

Do you know how much oil was offered for protection? Would this be enough to cover the 2 million barrels of oil used each day ofthe campaign?

[Yanny]

Still classified last time I checked.

[TG Moses VI]

Ahh… I see. Oh well, until that information is released then?

[Yanny]

Goverment won’t release it, they want to cover their ass. If we found out, The American People, half the Congressmen and Women would be voted out if they supported the war.

[TG Moses VI]

Ha, very much smoke and mirrors. Well America has always been this way (remember Watergate and the JFK anyone?), so it wouldn’t be surprising if the government kept it that way.

[mini_phreek]

at least untill every one involved is dead.

[TG Moses VI]

Nah, the government still withholds information from World War II even though all the major players are dead.