Freedom: Guzzling funds Taliban
War on drugs? Why not a war on oil?According to Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Taliban funding from Persian Gulf oil money outpaces funding from opium and heroin exports.
Good thing we'll only be dependent upon Persian Gulf oil for another 50 years, otherwise I might be a little worried.
Guzzle in peace! May Allah be with you.
Labels: Foreign Oil Dependency
posted by Dahcredyns at
2:05 PM
6 Comments:
It's not the Taliban's fault...nor anyone else's fault in that region...we chose to do it and we continue to choose to do it.
ONE YEAR of oil money would probably be enough for R&D in alternative energy issues for the next 20 years.
The government of this country doesn't give a shit about peace in that region...they just want to make money...via war and oil.
We get oil from many different places including Mexico and South America and oil is fungible.
If we stopped buying foreign oil tomorrow, it would still be sold, perhaps at a different price but it would sell and the money would still flow to the same sources it does now.
all the war on drugs does is keep the price of the drugs high...not only overseas but right on our own Mexican border.
and with regards to oil and the need for it, wasn't it the Germans who had coal but no oil and used a process to convert coal to fuel?
we could do that also.. no?
I don't think this planet could handle coal to oil production.
larry- i wasn't arguing that we should boycott Persian Gulf oil. i think we should declare war on all foreign oil - even that from Canada and Mexico.
and, without doubt, we could use coal to end foreign oil dependency, but at what cost?
pollution?
how much would cost to build enough new coal plants?
how much would it cost to add carbon capture?
plus you'd have to also utilize coal to gas, what's the price on that?
inevitably, however, we'd focus all of our technological advances on technology that only makes sense in America. success in the US auto industry can't be so insular if we're going to be exporters of technology - the primary driver of future US auto profits.
you're right... same conclusion with plug-ins using coal though right? at what cost?
no, i absolutely agree.
still, i think plug-ins do make sense, but you have to have a long time horizon.
in my opinion we should be scaling our way towards that technology, but we need better interim solutions.
we're lacking any sense of urgency and i don't believe that attitude drives innovation.
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