Wes Clark's a pretty smart guy. I haven't checked on any of this, but I'll bet it's at least as close to The Truth as anything you're gonna get talking to anybody else.
We spend about 1/2 a TRILLION dollars every year trying to secure the flow of oil into the US.
You're a pretty smart cookie too, so I'm sure you're wondering, why is it OK for us to spend all that money every year? Two basic reasons:
1) The US economy is designed, engineered and marketed as Petroleum-Based.
$15 Trillion dollars per year in GDP, and prob'ly 80-90% of it depends on relatively inexpensive oil products in one way or another. $500 Billion (aka 1/30th of your "gross revenue") sounds like cheap insurance to some of these pricks.
2) Clark says there's something like $170 Trillion worth of oil still in the ground.
And, oh yeah - 3) Most of the various layers of Government in the US reflect the "realities" of our Petro-Based economy, and the political community has again been corporatized to the point where it's not much more than just another Business Unit.
Knowledge is Power? Not here. Not anymore.
from WhoWhatWhy ( a new one for me) with a hat tip to Democratic Underground
We spend about 1/2 a TRILLION dollars every year trying to secure the flow of oil into the US.
You're a pretty smart cookie too, so I'm sure you're wondering, why is it OK for us to spend all that money every year? Two basic reasons:
1) The US economy is designed, engineered and marketed as Petroleum-Based.
$15 Trillion dollars per year in GDP, and prob'ly 80-90% of it depends on relatively inexpensive oil products in one way or another. $500 Billion (aka 1/30th of your "gross revenue") sounds like cheap insurance to some of these pricks.
2) Clark says there's something like $170 Trillion worth of oil still in the ground.
And, oh yeah - 3) Most of the various layers of Government in the US reflect the "realities" of our Petro-Based economy, and the political community has again been corporatized to the point where it's not much more than just another Business Unit.
Knowledge is Power? Not here. Not anymore.
from WhoWhatWhy ( a new one for me) with a hat tip to Democratic Underground
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