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Originally Posted by Rochard
Sure they are - when we are threatening war with Iran every chance we get.
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Prices are up largely because of both actual current instability and the threat of future instability in the Middle East. A commodity is beholden to the markets and investor concerns. Not sure how you believe the President of the USA is manipulating domestic retail gas prices without the rest of the world seeing it. It's not like gas prices are up in the US and down across Europe... retail prices are up all over the world.
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Take your
and use it to Google a little
The middle east has jack shit to do with oil prices, you've just been fed bull shit so long, you're starting to enjoy the flavor.
According to this,
Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries, as of November 2010, the top source of crude oil for the US is…Canada. Followed by Mexico. Indeed, of the top 15 countries that import oil to the US, 51.33% of them are in North America. If we add the rest of the Americas, 60.04% comes from there. If you combined the imports of the “West” (i.e. Canada and European nations), you have 34.28%. All in all, the United States got over 75% of its crude oil from non Arab states in November of 2010
Often when you hear talk about oil, you would get the impression that the US got all of its oil from the Middle East. If anything, most of it comes from elsewhere. And the biggest exporter of oil to the US is Canada.
The reason european nations prices are different is they get their oil from different places.
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that