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Thread #85254   Message #1578863
Posted By: pdq
08-Oct-05 - 11:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gas Prices???....
Subject: RE: BS: Gas Prices???....
Actually GUEST, the United States is 4.6% of the world's population yet we generate 42% of the world's wealth. Oil and natural gas are the key to success.

That money is sent to every country on planet earth, some in the form of food, some in monetary aid, but most goes to purchase goods made in other countries. China, with its 1.4 billion people, owes almost all of its recent prosperity to the US. We buy much of the goods they produce. Most of the goods they sell are copies of US products.

In the last 100 years, the Third World has received over 3 trillion dollars in money for their oil. That is the largest transfer of wealth in history, far more than Karl Marx or the leaders of the French Revolution could have dreamed of.

The US is the largest producer of food in the world. Without that food, 2 billion people around the world would starve.

Have a nice day.