RE: Why I'm here: a Muslim. My Philosophy in life. What is yours;Muslim?
May 16, 2018 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2018 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 16, 2018 at 2:32 am)Mathilda Wrote:I;m entirely certain of it. That's just how the math breaks down. The margins imported from the middle east are replaceable. We buy it from them because they sell it cheaper than their competitors and cheaper than we could produce it. Not because we couldn;t buy form their competitors (we're fucking rich) or that we couldn;t produce it (we have idle production).(May 10, 2018 at 10:11 am)Khemikal Wrote: Because it would hurt them, not us. They need to sell it, we don;t need to buy it. I
Are you sure about that? America is used to having plentiful amounts of oil. It can no longer produce it in any great quantities but most people there still drive massive gas guzzling cars.Not to mention that you generally need to drive everywhere. This is from a European perspective anyway.
The middle east is losing it;s economic influence long before a post oil world. Thats a part of the cause of all the unrest (and of islamic terrorism, for that matter). Though some islamists (like our buddy here) still cling to a past in which they were somehow the lifeblood of civilization in the west and could effect it...in the face of their growing irrelevance.
The ME needs to get right, quick...or they'll end up like the man who made the finest buggy whips in town.
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