... Countries of the West, especially the United States, have become "Petroholics," addicted to cheap oil, and OPEC is our dealer, happy to supply our much-needed fix at ever increasing prices. As a consequence, we are now stuck in what New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman calls the era of "Petrolism" — corrupt antidemocratic practices in which producing nations use oil to buy off their citizens with subsidies, and to intimidate their enemies...
A somewhat lengthy, but interesting read today at ‘The Prague Post Online’
Click it out- Oil prices could reach a dangerous $100 a barrel soon
** President Bush was right about us needing to change our ways on oil consumption... and finding and implementing new technologies to help us do just that...
AubreyJ.........
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