I keep hearing oil referred to as light sweet crude etc. are there crude oil tasters? Mmmmmm ... black gold! Texas tea! Ted
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 4:52 PM To: dsk; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: NJC Support for war oil? we should switch over to olive oil ... extra virgin at that ;-D Heather -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dsk Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NJC Support for war That would be a start, and I think some people wanting to go to more efficient cars or alternative energy sources is a form of what you suggest, albeit not nearly as dramatic. Gas isn't the only use of oil, though. In one quick glance around, how much plastic do you see? That's an oil-based product, as is polyester fabric, which seems to be everywhere now, even in high-priced clothing. Even nylon and pantyhose wouldn't exist without oil. Even the cost-efficient (and unhealthy) way cattle are raised in the US uses a huge amount of oil. Certainly everything manufactured uses oil in some way. If not in the product itself, oil is used to keep the machinery going. So when the price of oil goes up, everything's effected, even though the most noticeable rising price is at the gas pump. So, obviously, to keep our (the US) lifestyle going, we need A LOT of oil, as cheaply as possible. Maybe those nice Canadians would just give us their oil? And then after that's used up, maybe those nice Venezuelans... Of course, US corporate greed being what it now is, the cheap oil (wherever it's taken from) will benefit only the US oil company executives, who will then turn around and sell it for top dollar, probably, to US consumers. Supply and demand and all that rubbish can be manipulated, as in the faked California energy crisis, especially with oily friendly Bush and Cheney in office. Debra Shea, thinking in all this direness that the trend to getting music via download (which I'm resisting) rather than buying oil-product cds may turn out to be a good thing; ok, so it's not a BIG bright spot, but it's something positive, maybe... NP: BBC World News
