01 September 2007

Going off message

Did someone forget to tell US Congressman Jon Porter (R - NV) that the war in Iraq isn't, never has been and never will be about oil? I would think so he has come out and said out loud that a US withdrawal from Iraq will raise the price of petrol to 9 USD per US gallon. I few comments:

  1. He is an idiot as he claims "he was told" this. I suspect that his source is Ahmed, the barman at the Green Zone Four Seasons, who also gave him a tip for the 2:21 at Santa Anita.
  2. 9 USD per US gallon isn't out of the realm of possibility in the rest of the world. The current UK price of 95p a litre is rougly 7 USD per US gallon.
  3. He is an idiot.
  4. He is an idiot.
  5. See numbers 3 & 4.

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