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  Oil Price Rape

  Well the time has come. We can now put all the excuses to rest. As Americans it is time to cut off the Middle East from our open faucet money drain know as oil purchase. For less than $100 a barrel we can extract oil from coal. Something we have more of than the Middle East has oil reserve. I am sure it would hurt, cause panic (for about 15 minutes) but we need to STOP buying the oil. On the short term go ahead and start pumping in those "pristine areas". It is certainly better than letting a few oil soaked countries bring our economy down. Even though oil would probably spike at 4-5 dollars a gallon for a short time if we just cut off the Middle East oil (this is a price we are heading for anyway if we continue to ignore OPEC). Once people realize that gas would probably settle to just under 2 dollars a gallon (if we lean on the oil to just make exorbitant profits rather than obscene ones) for coal extracted oil rather than the permanent 4 dollar (at least) price we are headed for anyway. This will allow the oil companies to keep on running the country and not risk their being put lower on the gouging totem pole than outright efforts for alternative fuels would.

  It is just stupid to ignore that the Middle East is ruining our country. Let them drink that oil for a while. For exported grain a bushel of grain should be tied to a barrel of oil. Do you really think that the gas stations in the Middle East are paying the same for a gallon of gas as the stations in the US? Let them make bread from the crud or pay 100 dollars a bushel for grain for a while.

  Jim Palmiter

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