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Originally posted by Fred Quimby
The anti war protesters clearly stated that the war was about oil.
If this was true,,we should be paying 5 cents a gallon,,,just like the people in Iraq. Yes,,,gas costs 5 cents a gallon there.
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KRL beat me to the reply but let me add that gas in SUBSIDIZED In Iraq. When the USA took over they could not remove the subsidy due to the fact it would create havoc with a society where the wages are much lower than in other countries without subsidies. The USA currently is paying out huge sums to subsidize gas for Iraq and in some cases even more as they have been forced to import gas from Kuwait and other neighboring countries.