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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Your position is shortsighted:
1. As long as they have oil, the Middle East will be a major problem for the rest of the world;
2. The only way to rid them of their oil is to use it up;
3. Driving an ultra-economical car actually prolongs the Middle East's oil supply, thus prolonging its strangehold on us, and prolonging our use of the fossil fuel;
4. Driving a Prius gives comfort to the regimes that aid terrorists.
We can either slowly kill off the oil supply over many years, or use it with abandon and kill off the supply more quickly. I say the sooner we rob the Arabs of their stranglehold over the world, the better.
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Are you a R member of Congress? Because this sounds suspiciously like current economic policy.
