Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-11 Thread Keith Addison
subject. Dispensationalists are also easily identified by negatives - what you don't see them doing is talking a lot about such basic Christian tenets as God is Love for instance, or the Sermon on the Mount, let alone practising such things, quite the opposite. This view is neither

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-11 Thread robert luis rabello
(The shifting sands of truth) There are some web pages that have tried to keep count, but it's a tough job. Funny how people don't notice, isn't it? I suppose Lakoff's explanation holds good (though he's not in very good odour right now, and he wasn't at all the first to observe this: One

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-10 Thread robert luis rabello
Dear Robert, Thanks for your comments. They are vary helpful. I'm not sure I understand this Neo Con Dispensationalist principle but I also have to confess I don't understand the Neo Cons all that well. Not all NeoCons are dispensationalists, nor are all dispensationalists NeoCons,

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-09 Thread robert luis rabello
Hi All, Please do not misunderstand my point about Korea. I do not want my country to invade North Korea. (I never want the U.S. to invade anyone) I have many friends in the South whose lives would be destroyed. I was comparing the relative threat between the leaders of Iraq and North Korea

RE: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-08 Thread Tom Irwin
. or else he points elsewhere, no? Tom -Original Message- From: Rick Littrell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/7/05 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity Dear Tom, These are excellent points. In the case of France though the German army was a bit more

RE: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-08 Thread Tom Irwin
relative to U.S. security. Tom -Original Message- From: robert luis rabello To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/7/05 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity Rick Littrell wrote: Dear Tom, These are excellent points. In the case of France though the German army

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-08 Thread Rick Littrell
Thanks for your comments. They are vary helpful. I'm not sure I understand this Neo Con Dispensationalist principle but I also have to confess I don't understand the Neo Cons all that well. Do you think the is a political philosophy here or is it just another name for business

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-08 Thread Ken Provost
On Apr 8, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Rick Littrell wrote: I guess the most important questions for me are how much of the administrations positions on environment are philosophical and how much pragmatic. As several people have pointed out the collapse of cheap energy i.e., oil and gas will

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-08 Thread Keith Addison
Keith Addison wrote: (Iraqi forces) There wasn't much left of them by that time, which I think was the idea. This was one of my contentions in the lead up to the war. How can a nation whose armed forces have been decimated constitute a threat in the traditional, military sense? Our

RE: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-07 Thread Tom Irwin
? There's no oil there. Tom -Original Message- From: Rick Littrell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/5/05 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity Dear Scott, I think the thesis here is a bit of a reach. At the time of the invasion the dollar was not in the shape

re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-07 Thread DHAJOGLO
Iraq Invasion May Be Remembered as Start of the Age of Oil Scarcity By Robert Collier San Francisco Chronicle Sunday 20 March 2005 http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105EA.shtml Production tumbles in post-Hussein era as more countries vie for shrinking supplies ... If it weren't for

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-07 Thread Rick Littrell
national threat, we'ed be in North Korea. Why aren't we there? There's certainly weapons of mass destruction? WHY? WHY? WHY? There's no oil there. Tom -Original Message- From: Rick Littrell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/5/05 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-07 Thread robert luis rabello
Dear Tom, These are excellent points. In the case of France though the German army was a bit more of a challenge than the Iraq army, the French actually wanted us there. You bring up something interesting, Rick. I would like to clarify, however, that the German troops we Americans

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-07 Thread Keith Addison
Rick Littrell wrote: Dear Tom, These are excellent points. In the case of France though the German army was a bit more of a challenge than the Iraq army, the French actually wanted us there. You bring up something interesting, Rick. I would like to clarify, however, that the German

[Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-05 Thread MH
Iraq Invasion May Be Remembered as Start of the Age of Oil Scarcity By Robert Collier San Francisco Chronicle Sunday 20 March 2005 http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032105EA.shtml Production tumbles in post-Hussein era as more countries vie for shrinking supplies Instead of

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-05 Thread Scott
How many of us had an AHA moment when reading this article? We now see the real reason for this illegal war [or at least one of the reasons]. Saddam Hussein was about to be given a clean bill of health by the UN inspection team beacuse he obviously didn't have WMD's. He was then going to open

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-05 Thread MH
One way of looking at is the increased price of petroleum satisfies the oil bosses desires for profits and possibly the decreased demand for petroleum products from the public without increasing taxes to discourage its use sometime in the future. Is their any truth to the increased demand

Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity

2005-04-05 Thread Rick Littrell
I think the thesis here is a bit of a reach. At the time of the invasion the dollar was not in the shape it is now. In fact one reason for the decline is the cost of the war. I still lean to the theory that Sadam was seen as a threat to the region and eventually would threaten US access