Supposed if due to the invasion of Iraq, oil prices went down (1.00) would you still disapprove of the war?
Yes. I don't support using our troops to clear the way for our (and British and Dutch and Saudi) companies. I fully support the right of our oil companies exploiting whoever will allow them through diplomacy, but not by the force of US troops.
i think we've traveled that path before. fer long term success it'll require ever expanding military/political intrusions. the price in lives makes it an increasingly expensive sell even for economic expediency. way past time to consider different energy solutions. cheap middle eastern oil is now anything but cheap and we end up funding our enemies. time to move on ...
Iraq is about a lot more than what you say. It's about a vision towards the dream of democracy. It's about letting freedom ring from every luxury hotel inside the green zone to every luxxxury brothel inside the green zone. It's about every man, woman, and child inside the green zone being able to one day step in and out of their own personal limo, chauffeured by angry white man employee of Blackwater. And it's about the totally badass headrush you get when hauling ass outside of the green zone at lunchtime to fetch yourself a falafel from the pita stand and you make it back in without any noticeable shrapnel in your ass. Iraq has oil?
no kidding, i didn't want to vote yes. but only dropping $1.00? give me prices of $20/barrel and $0.79/gallon of the late 90s... then i'd approve of it. seriously though, it doesn't matter if we were given gas for free, it wouldn't have been worth the cost.
Nooooo! That would just promote people to buy gas and hurt the enviroment!!!!!!! !lolOLOLOLOL We need ethanol lolol But seriously.... I like war profiteering.
Why hasn't someone invented a synthetic way to make oil? I mean for the 100 billions of dollars that can me made with this; one has yet to do this. I woonder why?
They have. It's just really expensive. To use synthetic oil for your oil change costs more than using actual oil.
[industry geek]That synthetic oil still comes from crude oil, it just takes a longer path. Long chain olefins like octene and decene are separated out and/or created from crude oil, then recombined in an olimerization process to make the precise combination of molecules needed to give best lubrication properties.[/industry geek]
Is that why you can drive accross the whole world on a single oil change of synthetic (Mobil 1 ad campaign)?
Five years ago, I interned at the plant that makes Mobil 1. The original intention was to put it in a car, and never change it. You'd change the filter every 5000 miles, and every 25,000 you'd go to a special oil filtering facility that would drain your oil, run it through a special filter, put new additives in, and put it back in your car. When they were test-marketing it, they decided that they couldn't trust the technicians, and they could make more money if customers actually changed their oil.
