Comments on: NYT: Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S., Study Suggests http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/28/nyt-incentives-on-oil-barely-help-us-study-suggests/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jack A. Houston http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/28/nyt-incentives-on-oil-barely-help-us-study-suggests/#comment-8315 Jack A. Houston Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:14:15 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/2006/12/28/nyt-incentives-on-oil-barely-help-us-study-suggests/#comment-8315 The Iraq episode is an examp;le of how powerful the Petroleum, Gas, Coal and Uranium monopoly that exists, is. The Netherlands, (Shell Oil); England, (British Petroleum) and the United States, (American Petroleum Institute members) were the three nations which were adamandant that Iraq be invaded. Iraq petroleum reserves were the black gold bonanzq which they want to control. Valued at trillions of dollars when petroleum was $30 per barrel. I have asked repeatedly, since when invasion became the topic, HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL IS A DEAD G.I. WORTH? HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL IS A WOUNDED G.I. WORTH? HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL ARE DEAD AND WOUNDED CIVILIANS WORTH? The numbers keep adding up and President Bush haa ascertained since the firat day Baghdag, 6 or 7 million population, was indiscrimiatingly bombed, that the consequences were "collateral damage" and were justified, at least in his mind. The damage, loss of lives and injuries will never be known. The nation had no air power or defensive weapons to counteract the blitz. Today, after the United States has invested trillions of dollars in military equipment, which now are primarily obsolete, the military might is engaged in combat conditions of 10,000 years ago when cave men fought from cave to cave to evict invaders. Now is called dwelling to dwelling. to eliminate the citizens of Iraq who are resisting the invaders. The Iraq episode is an examp;le of how powerful the Petroleum, Gas, Coal and Uranium monopoly that exists, is. The Netherlands, (Shell Oil); England, (British Petroleum) and the United States, (American Petroleum Institute members) were the three nations which were adamandant that Iraq be invaded. Iraq petroleum reserves were the black gold bonanzq which they want to control. Valued at trillions of dollars when petroleum was $30 per barrel.

I have asked repeatedly, since when invasion became the topic, HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL IS A DEAD G.I. WORTH? HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL IS A WOUNDED G.I. WORTH? HOW MANY BARRELS OF OIL ARE DEAD AND WOUNDED CIVILIANS WORTH?

The numbers keep adding up and President Bush haa ascertained since the firat day Baghdag, 6 or 7 million population, was indiscrimiatingly bombed, that the consequences were “collateral damage” and were justified, at least in his mind. The damage, loss of lives and injuries will never be known. The nation had no air power or defensive weapons to counteract the blitz.

Today, after the United States has invested trillions of dollars in military equipment, which now are primarily obsolete, the military might is engaged in combat conditions of 10,000 years ago when cave men fought from cave to cave to evict invaders. Now is called dwelling to dwelling. to eliminate the citizens of Iraq who are resisting the invaders.

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