OT oil shortage

From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
Date: Tue Jul 10 22:12:16 2001

joe wrote:

> At 08:41 AM 7/9/01 -0600, Richard wrote:
> >What's more, they (the Oil interests) would really hate it if they were
> >require
> >to sell all the production from the U.S. to the U.S. and stop exporting.
>
> Dammed Right! I used to live in Roanoke, Virginia during the so
> called "energy shortage" in the mid-70s. Roanoke was the headquarters of
> the N&W Railroad and is located on their main line between W.Virginia and
> the seaports on the east coast of Virginia. EVERYDAY I used to see a
> multitude of trains loaded with nothing but coal from W.V. headed to the
> seaports to be loaded and hauled to Japan and other countries. This was at
> the same time that we couldn't heat our houses or drive our cars due to a
> "lack" of coal and oil! Wake up, folks! These "shortages" are nothing
> more than the manipulations of the oil industries and other large companies
> and are designed to do nothing except increase their profits. Go look up
> the statistics for the amount of oil imported during the so called arab oil
> embargo of the 70s. It was virtually the same as before the "embargo" but
> yet the comsumers were hood-winked into believing that there was a major
> shortage and tricked into paying more than double the price for all fuels.
> Even the ones that originated in the US. Go look at the amount of oil, gas
> or electric power consumed in this country. Has it declined at all in the
> last 30 years? No, of course not. The oil and power companies don't want
> it to decline, they have to keep up their profits.
>
> Stop and think about what's going on in this country. The major
> companies are screwing the American public on a daily basis and many of the
> politicians (particularly the Republicans) are playing right along. The
> companies invent these crisis and then use them as a pretext to not only
> rob us blind but also to circumvent numerious laws including conspiracy,
> anti-trust and enviromental laws. If you have doubts about the willingness
> of the politicians to play along with the enrgy companies, go look up the
> donor's names and amounts of the contributions to guys like GWB. All of
> that data is public record. While you're at it look up his investments in
> the oil and other energy related companies. With conficts of interest
> like his, we will never develope an alternative to oil and gasoline and we
> will never resolve the "energy crisis".

Well said Joe!

Buit is even deeper than that (i.e. Big Oil and politicians). At one time
the oil industry was under investigation for price fixing and the like. There
was even anti trust legislation and I'm not talking about Rockefeller and
Standard Oil. It started in the 40s was shelved during the war (WW2).
It resurfaced in the 50s. When things came to a head, the Supreme Court
ruled that oil is a national security mineral (vital). Not only did the
investigation go away, but the oil industry was given a lead role in
American foriegn policy. They got access to the CIA and the like!

The interaction between Big Oil and the intelligence community is
quite notorious. Its amazing to watch people like Dick Cheney
flow between them. And now as VP his secrets are supposed to
be part of the public record. He still has not provided the GAO
with the list of members of is enegry task force.

Should an industry get access to the vitals of US foreign policy?

Eric

>
>
> Ok, I'll get off my soap box now.
>
> Joe
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 22:12:16 BST