SUV-terrorism connection?

[Travish]

Maybe the commercials would want to say that if you drive a fuel inefficient car, you will have to buy a lot of gas and thus you fund the large oil companies, which are the real leaders of the "free" world.

Imho, this SUV commercial thing is as ridiculous as the current war against terrorism.

[captfb]

Hello AO's,
There is no denying our absolute addiction to fossil fuels that heat our homes and power our vehicles. There are alternatives.

Check out this link http://www.biomass.org/links.htm There are some real interesting links and articles on various websites listed there.

I am currently reading Gore Vidals book named "Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta” Anyone interested in 9/11, the proposed Iraq conflict and a variety of foreign policy/history issues should pick it up. There are so many links between the current administration and oil that it is scary.

I believe the issue here goes a little bit deeper then terrorism and SUV's. There are complex historical and diplomatic issues that are the source of our current troubles. But I ask, what if we were to end our dependency on oil and stop supporting Israel so blindly? Where would we be then?

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[Tiger Shark]

captfb: Wake up and think for a minute please!!!!!!!!

In a society that relies _so_ heavily on fossil fuels for it's very existance it is all but impossible for _any_ administration not to have links to oil in some way or another...... Just because the Bush administrations have not tried to hide their links doesn't mean that their links are any more or less sinister than the Clinton administrations for example!!!!!!

[captfb]

Tiger_shark,
Wow I sure am "awake and thinking" after your post. Maybe you should re-read my post and take a look at what I really said. My comments were directed at the "current" administration and their ties to the oil business. There is no need to make a comment about another administration. But if you wish to do so, please use your amazing cognitive abilities to enlighten me on the subject. If you know so much about Clinton and his connections to big business why not show us some of the proof or evidence?

I understand more then you can know about the connection between politicians and big oil business. Sorry for not specifying "other administrations” Thanks for your comments though.....I need a good laugh every once an awhile!

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[Tiger Shark]

captfb:

Your comment _precisely_ was "There are so many links between the current administration and oil that it is scary". What's scarey? That people in political power had a life prior to their political one? That because of their links to oil they are going to go to war with another country simply to make more profit for themselves? What if the next president was a beer manufacturer - would it be scarey that he might repeal drinking and driving laws so he can make more money? That is absolutely as unlikely as GWB taking America to war so he and his buddies can make more profit from oil!!!!!!!!

While I have utter contempt for almost all modern politicians most of them are not so blatantly self serving as a comment like yours intended to purvey. You will also note that when I mentioned the Clinton administration I immediately followed it with the words "for example". I picked that administration because it was the most recent - nothing more, nothing less.

Clearly, you spent far too much time learning about "more than you can know about the connection between politicians and big oil business" and insufficient time concentrating on basic comprehension of the English language.

Keep on giggling....... I'm sure the idiotic look befits you........

[captfb]

Tiger_shark,

It is scary that........Unocal or Union Oil of California has been for years trying to extend from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Karachi in Pakistan which is near to the Indian Ocean an oil pipeline. Unocal is just one company to which Bush-Cheney and big oil have interests in. Unocal realized that the Taliban could not provide security for the pipeline. I must credit Gore Vidal through his book for bringing this information to my attention.
Big oil then began pushing ever harder on oil friendly interests to do a little regime changing in Afghanistan. Along comes Osama Bin Laden, his zealots and their blessed terrorism which provided perfect cover for the real reason why America went to Afghanistan. For years oil interests have coveted Afghanistan as a doorway into the mineral rich Caspian region. England in part invaded Afghanistan in the 1920's seeking a buffer between its interests in India and powers in that region.
As far as my powers of comprehension.....I understood exactly what you were trying to say. I laughed because your argument and analogies are glib and trite. The Bush Administration has tried to hide W's involvement in Arbusto, which was in part financed by one of Bin Ladens brothers. Thanks again Mr Vidal. Try to use logic and analysis backed up by facts before you lecture me on my ability to comprehend English.

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[bofhandpfy]

Originally posted here by silentstalker
I'm not saying SUVs are fuel efficiant; they do have a point when they say they consume tons of gas. But, I'd rather drive something safe and reliable (meaning if a teenager doing 135 in a tuned up Civic slams into me, HE'LL get crushed and not me) then driving a hybrid with a topspeed of what you do in an SUV pulling out of your driveway. But that's just me

Bush and some of his boys / girls oil men???? so maybe ........., just maybe.....

Silentstalker, I agree with you to a point, but I drive restored 1960's Mini Coopers, so the last thing I want is, some mother / father on the school run running into the back of me driving a tank. (I've lost 2 expensive cars that way) and due to this I always hang back when there is an SUV anywhere near me.

Some SUV drivers use the size of their vehicle as a sort of bullying tactic.

So i'll go one step further and say some SUV drivers are terrorists in their own little way "give way to me or get hurt!"

Flame me baby one more time.

/me goes, and hugs a tree

[Tiger Shark]

captfb:

There you go again...... Off on your Vidal tangent. What _exactly_ did your last post have to do with my previous post. Nothing...period. You continue to talk as if the Bush administration is the only administration in the history of the US that has ever been beholden to others which is naive in the extreme. Your accusations, based on a book you are currently reading written by someone who despises the republican party, are beginning to come across as the illogical partisan ranting of a screaming liberal who has an agenda and cannot see past it.

At no point in this conversation have I discussed the right or wrong of _any_ administration. I have been speaking in general terms about administrations and the possibility that they are all beholden in one way or another to persons outside the political arena. You on the other hand keep returning to your imbecile notion that this administration is automatically bad and that everything is being done for oil including taking the country to war for their own personal gain.

You clearly have no intent of having a conversation outside of your own agenda. You clearly do not read and comprehend what I have written to you. I have made no "arguments" to be considered "glib and trite" since I have made no arguments for or against anyone or anything in particular.

To echo your parting sentiment - read what is written - understand it - then use logic and sense to respond to what is _actually_ written not what you think should have been written to allow you to continue your puerile and unsubstantiated claims. (Consistently quoting a single book by a single author with political motivation is hardly considered properly substantiated data - but that is a concept that probably eludes you).

Since you have clearly proven that actual dialogue is not what you desire - our conversation is closed sweety-pie......

[sproget]

i own a european car which goes at 230mph thxs