The Iraq War retrospective Thread

[kandrathe]

A monetary system built simply on the need of the American dollar from outside sources, because "everyone needs oil" is so absurd, its wrong.

I dunno. Not such a stupid, absurd thought actually. Relate oil to farming, to transport, to every individual who commutes, to plastics, to virtually everything we do. Now, expand that to energy in all its forms. If you make the dominant form of energy more expensive, simple economic supply and demand will drive up the lower priced forms as well. It stands to reason that if oil prices increase, then electricity prices will increase, even if they are generated from hydro, or nuclear. I would say there probably is a linkage between prosperity, freedom and the abundance of cheap energy.