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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:15 AM

  @Mark Denney

  Actually I would have acted economically against the Saudi's long ago. Had Pres Clinton and the Republicans in the 90's had invested in alternative fuels (natural gas for one, which can power automobiles, funded focus fusion, funded cars that were fuel efficient like the care I owned in 1987 that got 55 miles to the gallon), but they did not. Had we implemented the plans in the 1970's to explore and fund alternate energies, perhaps this would not have happened at all. But in the 1990's oil was cheap again, so why would our government officials do anything differently, I mean they got tons of money from Oil companies right! I would have embargoed Saudi oil products immediately, I would have sued them in international courts, start a war, probably not. I would have pushed legislation making it illegal for American companies to do business in Saudi Arabia. Do you know anything about Saudi Arabia? The royal family and Saudi's themselves barely work they hire folks from places like the Philippines trap them in Saudi Arabia and use them as slaves. We certainly could have seen this coming they've been holding fund raisers for terrorists for more than 20 years. We would stop selling the Saudi military ANYTHING. They can fund these things because of our addiction to oil. The continue to fund terrorism. They continue to work against the US. They continue to be some of the worst offenders of human rights and we do nothing because they have oil.

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