u guys ready for $4 a gallon?
08-09-2006, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' post='832118' date='Aug 9 2006, 04:26 PM
Somebody needs to find a vast reserve of oil on Cuba. We'd annex it tomorrow.
They have, castro has already sold a lot of the rights to Norway and China, the US for the first time in 40 years has talked about removing sanctions in order to make offers on the oil rights.
75,000 barrels a day are already coming out of cuba with more to come.
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?...rticle&id=2419
08-09-2006, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='832121' date='Aug 9 2006, 03:31 PM
They have, castro has already sold a lot of the right to Norway, the US for the first time in 40 years has talked about removing sanctions in order to make offers on the oil rights.
No kidding? Somebody's sleeping on the job. With Kruschev and the USSR out of the picture, we can own Cuba! Why fight a war halfway around the world in Iraq? Logistically speaking, it's like perfect. Think of the fuel we could save running bombing missions over Havana instead of Baghdad.
This is Risk we're playing right?
08-09-2006, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='832121' date='Aug 9 2006, 03:31 PM
Interesting article. I read the whole thing. Because I have an open mind.
08-09-2006, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' post='832123' date='Aug 9 2006, 04:38 PM
No kidding? Somebody's sleeping on the job. With Kruschev and the USSR out of the picture, we can own Cuba! Why fight a war halfway around the world in Iraq? Logistically speaking, it's like perfect. Think of the fuel we could save running bombing missions over Havana instead of Baghdad.
This is Risk we're playing right?
u raise a good point, cuba has everything that iraq had, oil, oppressive leader for us to target our aggression upon. the logistics are simple, the initial investment to potential profit ratio is far better then that of iraq. seems win win to me by our current gov't invasion guidelines. We know he had nukes (wmd's) at one point and we can easily "suspect" they still exist.
08-09-2006, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' post='832124' date='Aug 9 2006, 04:47 PM
Interesting article. I read the whole thing. Because I have an open mind.
i would believe that if for even an instant i thought you could read... you'd have been better off saying "my kid read it to me", i'd have believed that.
08-09-2006, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='832127' date='Aug 9 2006, 03:49 PM
i would believe that if for even an instant i thought you could read... you'd have been better off saying "my kid read it to me", i'd have believed that.
Ya got me! I just copied the text and pasted it into my "text to speech" app.
08-09-2006, 05:12 PM
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I've been toying with the idea of making my own bio-diesel and buying some old POS diesel car. Not sure if the time spent converting grease to bio-diesel is worth it, but at 4+ a gallon for fuel, it might be.
08-09-2006, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='832126' date='Aug 9 2006, 01:48 PM
u raise a good point, cuba has everything that iraq had, oil, oppressive leader for us to target our aggression upon. the logistics are simple, the initial investment to potential profit ratio is far better then that of iraq. seems win win to me by our current gov't invasion guidelines. We know he had nukes (wmd's) at one point and we can easily "suspect" they still exist.
plus the cubans are more easy going than the iraqis, seems like they'd like to be rich and powerful like tony montana, mang
08-09-2006, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='832110' date='Aug 9 2006, 03:37 PM
the major differences this time are threefold
2. china is BIG and its industrializing, they have increased the total worldwide demand for oil, by fifty fafillion kajillion rupees.
dont forget India as well, they are whoring all the oil also