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skyhawker writes "Yahoo! News is running an article about a New Jersey home that uses solar power to provide 100% of its energy needs, including fuel for the owner's hydrogen fuel cell-powered automobile. From the article: 'Strizki runs the 3,000-square-foot house with electricity generated by a 1,000-square-foot roof full of photovoltaic cells on a nearby building, an electrolyzer that uses the solar power to generate hydrogen from water, and a number of hydrogen tanks that store the gas until it is needed by the fuel cell. In the summer, the solar panels generate 60 percent more electricity than the super-insulated house needs. The excess is stored in the form of hydrogen which is used in the winter -- when the solar panels can't meet all the domestic demand -- to make electricity in the fuel cell.'"
Reasonable liberal?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......sorry. lost control there for a minute.
A more likely scenario is that Iran or Syria acquires nuclear weapons and your son will be called to protect the right for Israel to exist. When that happens you will probably be glad that 10 years prior to that somebody else's son fought to secure a stable military infrastructure in Iraq.
I'm pretty much certain if Oil was the real problem it would be a lot cheaper in the long run to just harvest shale.
The cost of the Iraq war so far has been about 1.4 billion barrels of oil per year. Pre-war Iraq only produced around 730 Million barrels a year (A little less than they do today). Even if 100% of the oil was consumed by the US for absolutely free it would take 2 years of oil production to recoup the costs for every year we have been in Iraq.
Considering that US oil consumption is about 7 billion barrels a year it's kind of hard to believe that Iraq is all about oil.
The only reason Iran and Syria don't overwhelm Israel is because they would surely be destroyed by Israel's nuclear weapons. The reason Iran and Syria would want nuclear weapons is not so they can immediately launch them at Israel, but so that they can create a situation of mutually assured destruction and then wage conventional warfare (which they have much better odds of winning).
Mod parent +5 FUNNY!
You can't handle the truth.
You see, in this case, we don't have a murdered man or a wallet that was stolen. So yes, when the heroin adict says he didn't do it, It would be probable that he actualy didn't. So to translate that into Bush and oil and war, Were is the oil? hmm? Were is the god damn oil? Iraq isn't giving it to us, they even went thru the UN for their daily export alotment because belive it or not, Iraq is to this day restricted by UN resolutions and are limited by the UN in some ways. People like you place a hatred above all other rational thought and the most disturbing thing is that you actualy beleive yourself.
War for oil today is as unfounded as it was back in the first gulf war. A country got invaded by another country and asked for our help. we answered with the help of a lot of other countries. End of story.
Then people say the only reason we helped was because they had oil wich is nothing more then an uneducated guess. We have had dealings in that area for almost a century before oil was a common neccesity. We have also had obligations in that area including Kuwiat, since before kuwait knew it had oil in the amounts it does. We were mandated at one time as thier protector and as far as i know, When Kuwait gained it's independence of sorts the british were defending it and we steped up too my mandate. I'm betting someone who knows how evil the crack dealer is would already know this though. Wich make sme wonder why you even repeat the shit you do.
Well following that statment, I would say he has more credibility then you do at this moment. Wich might not mean a lot but doesn't automaticly make him a lier. Especialy when the lies being spouted are nothing more the political assasination attempts by people who cannot see the forest for the trees. One day I wish to be as smart as you.
No, just the same poster with then ability to see the world for what it is. I'm not someone willing to repeat all kinds of falsehoods because of some hatred or distain for a person. Non of the "War for oil" arguments pass a historical fact. Non of the Bush lied passes either. And I know your goign to say something about were are the WMDs. I will answer with when you walk into your kids room and smell tobaco smoke, just because you cannot find a lit marboro doesn't mean someone wasn't smoking in the room".
We have former Iraqi generals (2 of them) claiming In a book they wrote, that they (yes first hand "they") with the help of russia, used small aircraft to shuttle the WMDs and componants to WMDs to storage facilities in Syria. We have radar singatures confirming large amunts of small air trafic in the areas specified by the generals. On top of that, We had not only america and GW thinking Iraq had WMDs or was pursuing them we had the UK, france, germany, rusia and several nations who believed the same. They just didn't think it warrented an escalation of violence or war.
To comlicate this further, France, (i think germany too but not sure without looking it up), rusia and china had secrete oil deals along with UN secretary generals family members )think kojo in your google search) hidden by the oil for food program and didn't want to disrupt that with a war or the removel of the leader. The Weapons inspector (ritter) who is admitidly anti war, hurried the inspection report (in less then a year)claiming Iraq wasn't likley involved in WMDs even though he had previously stated that several years would be need