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Originally Posted by aumbrellaforainydays

but if we cant control everyone maintaing their share of the supply, how is it going to help anything, ie Nigerian rebels attacking Africa's largest offshore platform:

Well for starters, in the event there was a sudden drop in the overall world suply due to such an incident, there would be more oil available to begin with as opposed to the current level thereby reducing the percentage in overall lost production.

Hopefully however in addition to simply drilling more we could reinstate the pre-99' regulations on futures investors to prevent speculators from jacking us like they've gotten so fond of doing lately. Granted this may mean smaller returns in the investments of our 401k companies but better slow steady growth than being forced to dip into that fund with an added penalty now just so we can keep going to work and investing into that same 401k no?

Ultimatly of course we will eventually face the need of developing alternative fuels and cars that can run on them, but not as long as theres crude in the ground and a buck to be made by it. I'd love to start running vehicles on hemp oil tomorrow personally but I just dont see it happening till sometime after the Yellowstone Caldera erupts and our Government chokes and dies on it's own inability to properly handle such a crisis.