From comments on a protected entry...
International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA): "Real Price Of Gasoline" Report Reveals Actual Cost of Gas to Consumers Is as High as $15.14 per Gallon:...subsidies for gas paid by consumers total up to $1.68 trillion per year.
This was BEFORE Iraq #2! What a phenomenal waste of resources, time, and energy. It's just... tragic. Instead of fighting endless wars, we could have invested those trillions in solar, wind, and wave technologies and been living on a pollution free, non-sky-is-falling planet with a strong, locally-run economy.
Speaking of Iraq, remember that oil bourse in Iran which started the war drums?
U.S. foes slam dollar at historic OPEC meeting -- chicagotribune.com:The fall of the dollar is not the fall of the dollar -- it's the fall of the American empire.
That quote from Chavez. Another doozy from Iran's President Ahmadinejad :
They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.
We're no longer the good guys... we have our priorities all cockeyed.
This was BEFORE Iraq #2! What a phenomenal waste of resources, time, and energy. It's just... tragic. Instead of fighting endless wars, we could have invested those trillions in solar, wind, and wave technologies and been living on a pollution free, non-sky-is-falling planet with a strong, locally-run economy.
Speaking of Iraq, remember that oil bourse in Iran which started the war drums?
U.S. foes slam dollar at historic OPEC meeting -- chicagotribune.com:The fall of the dollar is not the fall of the dollar -- it's the fall of the American empire.
That quote from Chavez. Another doozy from Iran's President Ahmadinejad :
They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.
We're no longer the good guys... we have our priorities all cockeyed.