--- Oil? Oil??? Have you SEEN the price of gas? I mean c'mon, you can make a very plausable argument that buisiness in weaponry is the cause, but oil?? I don't really think you understand the argument you're making.
*sigh* Oh yes, I've seen the price of gasoline lately...and the record profits each quarter for Exxon. I worked for Exxon back in the 80's on the colony oil shale project in Colorado. Indirectly that is...I worked for a small exploration drilling company who worked for Brown & Root (<that name ring a bell? Halliburton?), who worked for Exxon. The Government was pressuring Exxon to develop the massive amounts of oil shale there. It was estimated that it would cost 3 billion dollars to get production up and running.

Exxon went in and blew money like a drunk sailor on saturday night. All cost plus, safety first to an extreme that was crippling, everyone was paid higher than Union wages to keep the unions out, plus living expenses, plus free housing. Our small company had brand new equipment for everything, new 4x4's, new drills, forklifts, dozers, the works...all paid for by Exxon. I could tell you stories of obscene waste, like when they had me dropping 5k survey equipment down a hole only to be uselessly lost, and without blinking, they would buy another just to be lost again.

Exxon spent 7 billion on the half completed project and told the Government Oil Shale was just too expensive to mine. They shut the job down overnight without a warning to the thousands of people employed there, devastating the local economy and leaving a ghost town. Exxon collected nice fat subsidies from the Federal Government footing the bill for their genuine efforts.

( And in return they make sure their friends in Washington get elected. You can't begin to grasp the power and wealth Exxon has until you've seen it in action. --geez, I probably just sent the Illuminati crew into a seizure)

This is business as usual for the oil companies. This is how they operate.

The rest of my statements and your rebuttals speak for themselves I think.

In the words of Torog....have a good one.......
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