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2003-09-18 Arabia

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Posted by Mike 2003-09-18 8:27:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is Jimmy Carter busy? Can we get him over there on the double to make things better?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-18 8:43:14 AM|| 2003-9-18 8:43:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Send Madeline over there in a Burka. That will scare the Saudis into rethinking the whole nuke idea. Heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-18 9:49:43 AM|| 2003-9-18 9:49:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Heh... send Madeline over there without her Burka. After they gouge their eyes out, we can take over...

Posted by snellenr 2003-9-18 10:00:45 AM|| 2003-9-18 10:00:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 If they want a nuke, we should give them a nuke. Let's just drop a small one in their desert where the Iranians can see the mushroom cloud too. Might give them all pause to reflect on how many we have.

Posted by Tom 2003-9-18 11:11:13 AM|| 2003-9-18 11:11:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I like your idea, Tom...a used nuke!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-18 11:51:14 AM|| 2003-9-18 11:51:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Time to stop pussy-footing with the Saudi's. The US should have a two pronged attack (1) promote the independence of the Shia dominated oil regions just south of Kuwait. (2) promote vegetable oil usage for diesel engines in the US with tax incentives, etc to promote the distribution of vegetable oil at existing gas station infrastructure and to increase the number of people buying diesels, and to get the car manufacturs to use diesel engines over petrol engines. Combine that with tax incentives and laws the promote two-way power meters and inexpensive roof solar tiles.

The combination of the two could have the US free of foreign oil supplies within 5 years and the technology is there, its just a matter of having the willpower to screw the Saudi's and our own oil industry friends.

The vegetable oil has the advantage of smelling like French Fries instead of nasty diesel fumes and its a source the US can depend upon as long as Fast Food is super popular here.

Posted by Yank 2003-9-18 12:18:08 PM|| 2003-9-18 12:18:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 They will have the bomb, I figure it will come from France. The pressure is on in the happy kingdom. Yank, I agree, I love a powerful V8 but I did once own a Mercedes 220D (Beirut taxi/car bomb) and it was a very reliable car with poor passing power but it could cruise effortlessly. New deisels are now able to excellerate. "Let's drill"

Posted by Lucky 2003-9-18 12:41:36 PM|| 2003-9-18 12:41:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The one thing that I have been griping about to congressmen and women since the 70's is the development of a national energy policy with milestones for achievable goals to get off the ME oil tit. Both parties have pissed away 30 years of good development time. We have the smarts. We have the technology or we could develop it. We as a nation have not had the national will to do this.

The people have to lead. The politicians have been s--king status quo d--k at our expense for too long.

Arrrrggggghhhhhh!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-18 2:32:38 PM|| 2003-9-18 2:32:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Agree 100%, Paul. We would have a hotel on Titan by now if fear-mongering luddites hadn't been calling the shots for 30 years.

Posted by atomic conspiracy 2003-9-18 3:14:12 PM|| [http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2003-9-18 3:14:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Saudi Arabia is concerned over an Iranain nuclear weapons programme and the complete lack of international pressure on Israel, said to have 200 nuclear devices.

Israel is NOT a Saddam Hussein-esque dictatorship, and the Saudis have no real reason to fear nuclear attack, unless of course Saudi operatives are incubating some other more sinister plans for the future...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-18 4:34:18 PM|| 2003-9-18 4:34:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 .. in which case it's probably already too late for them to do anything about it.

Posted by Dishman 2003-9-18 9:54:18 PM|| 2003-9-18 9:54:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 well, i still like ethanol for cars since it can already be used (is used in racing vehicles, just need to modify the engine to not have parts made of materials that corrode in ethanol) and it is a liquid so it can be used in the existing tanker-transport-petrol bowser system.

Get the cars off the Soddie's black pus first, that will put the fear of allah into them!

I know people don't like that idea because they want cars that go faster for less, and ethanol fuel is more expensive, but i think it is worth it for the satisfaction of weaning us off the saudi teat.

Posted by Anon1 2003-9-19 3:14:42 AM|| 2003-9-19 3:14:42 AM|| Front Page Top

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