Reply #20: Ah, but you don't take one small point into consideration. Oil--petroleum--is the lifeblood [View All]

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for this society. It is not jets, nor timber, nor soy beans. It's Petroleum. Petroleum is no longer just a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder, or at least should not be. Not any more. And to leave its control in the hands of the Texas-American Petroleum Mafia is to continue to invite its exploitation for private commercial profit. Profit is no longer the prime objective. For us or any other country.