Libyan streets filled with blood

[EpyonXero]

This was taken in Bahrain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQ...ipcontrinter=1

[KSGregman]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

This was taken in Bahrain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQ...ipcontrinter=1

We've spent a fortune on essentially bribing the "King" of that shit hole into letting us base the US 5th fleet in his island "country."

Why?

To ensure our access to cheap Saudi oil....and don't even ask how much we've spent bribing/protecting THOSE assholes.

It's still amazing to me how many people drink the kool-aid...believe the lies our government tells us....that muslims hate us for our freedoms....for our different religion.

Maybe some of them do....but....

The vast majority of them hate us because we prop up dictators that do shit like what we just saw in that video because it suits our larger aims.

See?

Freedom and democracy are only words when access to oil is on the line. Otherwise, 100 million people living in Eygpt and elsewhere in the Middle East are only "equity to be managed" in the words of a member of government I saw on a Sunday morning talk show.

THEIR hopes? THEIR dreams of a better future for themselves or for their kids? Meaningless in OUR "big picture" of give us cheap oil.

Their hatred of us is grounded in the REAL world and we're stupid to EVER believe otherwise.

[dReWpY]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

This was taken in Bahrain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQ...ipcontrinter=1

holy shit

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

This was taken in Bahrain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQ...ipcontrinter=1

Meh...saw a similar video from gaza and thats all just fake.
Do yous see anyone get shot?
No
All you really see is the guy in the white shirt do the happy dance.

This is obviously staged to put the government in a bad light....

ok I cant even keep a straight face pulling that one outta my ass.


but seriously man in white shirt has serious happy dance....specially at 32 sec mark

[Sixxxxer]

It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach that we the fucking Unites states of america have to let Oil Speculators control the fucking price of Oil.

If it hits 5$ a Gallon You will flat out see millions of people just stop driving all together. Theirs no way to afford it. I will literally be on my motorcycle Rain or shine at that point. The Ram is a thirsty bitch.

And the thing I love the most, all these car companies boast Higer MPG cars and going green and doing better things...Aint gonna offset the Already rising gas prices we are dealing with...so you had a 12 MPG truck before when gas was 2 dollars a gallon...Now it gets 20MPG but gas is 5 dollars a gallon...

You'll see ALOT of theft happening and people trying to scam gas stations over what was said and what was put into the car.

Buckle your seatbelts. it gonna get ugly

[KSGregman]

Originally Posted by Sixxxxer

It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach that we the fucking Unites states of america have to let Oil Speculators control the fucking price of Oil.

What should REALLY make you sick to your stomach is the fact that we've known all along that the TRUE cost of oil (including the cost of maintaining our Empire in the Middle East to protect our access to the oil) is far too high....both in dollars and morality. We've also known all along that oil is a finite resource and that there ARE alternatives available.

Have we made a "Manhattan Project" scale effort and unlocking the potential of any alternatives?

Nope.....

Why?

Because Big Oil doesn't want us to.

So we whore ourselves out to murderous dictators while preaching "FREEDOM!!" and "DEMOCRACY!!"....never realizing that it is exactly THIS hypocrisy that inspires those people to hate us.

[Dave]

And we still won't allow our own drilling

[Sixxxxer]

From what I gather...Alaska is just sitting there waiting to be raped and pillaged...And ALSO if we drilled within the USA it would tumble prices to damn near 1$ a Gallon again.

I'm sorry but Fuck the wildlife.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Sixxxxer

From what I gather...Alaska is just sitting there waiting to be raped and pillaged...And ALSO if we drilled within the USA it would tumble prices to damn near 1$ a Gallon again.

I'm sorry but Fuck the wildlife.

Don't forget all the shale lands in north flyover

[Triple]

Originally Posted by Sixxxxer

From what I gather...Alaska is just sitting there waiting to be raped and pillaged...And ALSO if we drilled within the USA it would tumble prices to damn near 1$ a Gallon again.

I'm sorry but Fuck the wildlife.

Easy to say writing from a place like Jersey that's already been raped and pillaged. Let's put an entire ecosystem in jeopardy so you don't have to trade in your Dodge Ram...

The environment is more important than oil supply, period. The focus should be on alternate sources of energy; otherwise we'll just keep digging until the oil actually runs out, we'll have damaged huge sections of wilderness in the process, and we'll end up in the very same predicament we're facing now: oil demand outpacing available supply and scrambling to find an alternate energy source. Ruining the land doesn't just affect the migration of some herd of caribou; it changes the weather, it alters local economies, it pollutes the air/water/soil, etc.

You're lost in Candy Land if you think more drilling in the states would reduce gas prices to a dollar a gallon.