Comments on: "Its All About Oil"-Alan Greenspan

By: In Praise of Cynicism « Mick Arran

In Praise of Cynicism « Mick Arran — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:02:37 +0000

[...] to ask ourselves - and our so-called “leaders” – a few cynical questions: Who benefits? What evidence is there that anything this political official/media pundit is saying is true? Does [...]

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:24:54 +0000

Well, Well, Well, look like having some patience paid off for SHELL…

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ArticleID/11331

By: Alternative Fuels Now » Geopolitical Disruptions #2: Identifying the Feedback Loops

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:00:36 +0000

[...] United States, EU, China (and here), Russia, and [...]

By: Something for which we can thank Dick Cheney | folo

Something for which we can thank Dick Cheney | folo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:45:55 +0000

[...] ready to sign a big oil deal with China. Russia is probably next. We spend $2 Trillion on what Greenspan called “a war for oil”, and our global rivals get half the oil. We continue to live in Dick Cheney’s old colonial [...]

By: Waylan Jones

Waylan Jones — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:54:22 +0000

U.S. foreign policy in the middle and far east is being executed as a two pronged approach, the main goal of which is to garrison the Iraqi oil fields for American development while simultaneously exploiting the vast labor resources of the far east. This policy, at least for the short run should be brilliantly successful because these two components feed off of each other. The export of the U.S. economy to China and the rest of the far east has had the effect of fueling among other things a ravenous and voracious appetite for fossil fuels AND expanded competition for U.S. oil companies who are using both soft and hard power to make sure that India and China get the resources they will need for the future; but only if U.S. oil companies can profit from the venture. So I agree with Dan in that our troops are no more than a huge private mercenary force of luckless pawns.
The wariness of American oil companies toward China is born out in the massive investments in the copper,tin,oil and other resources of that country in Africa. When are we as a people going to wake up to the fact these people are not friends but friendly opponents who are just as ruthlessly opportunistic toward us as we are toward our own people.
I hasten to add that this is not about money, at least not solely. This is about control and gamesmanship. I believe that corporate America decided a long time ago that they would rather sell out their own people to make a buck(even if it meant the eventual dissolution of their own country) rather than share any profits with them because to do so would mean surrendering some measure of control. Welcome one and all to what will go down in history and the Guinness Book of World Records as the Worlds Biggest Pissing Match.

Now don’t get me wrong. I still hold out the hope that these people (and we) will wake up when we all realize that they have surrendered their control and the futures of us all to foreigners. However, by that time, whenever that is, the only result of that realization will quite possibly be WWIII.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:17:32 +0000

The Iraqi oil is but a side issue. There is a lot more money for these companies to make in the trans-Afganistan pipeline. With this in mind, I believe that Iraq was a conquest of opportunity used to divert the attention of the American public away from Afganistan and toward Iraq. And it has worked. Think of how much news coverage Afganistan recieves compaired to Iraq. The Presidential campaign is all about the failed policies of Iraq and a plan to get out. What about Afganistan? No one is talking about it and the troops, based on numerous testimonies from the troops themselves, are based in Afganistan acting as guards for the pipeline workers. Can you believe that? US military is a private security force for forign oil companies.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:41:26 +0000

bad bad … what will these guys do when oil is out?

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By: Big Oil’s Iraqi Charity « Jon Taplin’s Blog

Big Oil’s Iraqi Charity « Jon Taplin’s Blog — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:16 +0000

[...] posts I’ve written, the one that got the most hits was a piece in February entitled “It’s All About Oil-Alan Greenspan”. This morning it was revealed that the Big Oil companies that were Dick Cheney’s handmaidens [...]

By: Beyond Logical » Blog Archive » “Its All About Oil”-Alan Greenspan

Beyond Logical » Blog Archive » “Its All About Oil”-Alan Greenspan — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:12:57 +0000

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By: Iraqi Oil « Jon Taplin’s Blog

Iraqi Oil « Jon Taplin’s Blog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:05:50 +0000

[...] 9, 2008 · No Comments There has been a good deal of discussion on these pages about Iraqi Oil. Finally a notion from the Congressional Democrats that we all could agree on. [...]