Will oil hit $100 a barrel? Check out what Friedman said this morning.

[Domitan]

I was channelsurfing this morning, and caught a part of Charles Gibson's interview with NY Times columnist, Thomas Friedman. Remember that histrionic guy with THAT stache??? Yeah, the one who pimped like hell the war on Iraq a few years ago. So what's his take on the tensions between the USA and Iran?


Friedman acknowledged one main reason for Iran's desire to get the bomb was Bush's foreign policy. Iran was named as part of the "Axis of Evil". North Korea gets the bomb and gets left alone. Iraq does not get the bomb and gets attacked. Brutal but simple logic for Iran to want to get "life insurance" as Friedman mentioned.

Gibson then asked Friedman what he felt was Iran's course of action in regards to "pain and hurt" for the USA. Was it cutting off the oil or messing with the USA troops in Iraq?

Friedman boldly stated that if it was cutting off the oil causing its value to shoot up to $100, he would be a very very happy man. Why? It would force Americans to mass shop for hybrid cars run on ethanol and/or corn fuel.

There you have it! Friedman, scribe for the neocons, reveals the neocon desire for this conflict with Iran. They have no compunctions about causing oil to shoot up $100 so that the "fat and lazy" Americans can wean themselves from their addiction to oil! Brace yourselves.

[liberal N proud]

1. From a post last night - Challenging the mighty dollar

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x609854

The reason North Korea is left alone and Iraq & Iran are not? It is all about the dollar.

In 2004, Iran decided to do what Iraq did before it -- start the process of eventually selling its oil and natural gas in euros instead of the globally mandated US dollar. Yet, Iran is 'one-upping' Iraq by starting its own energy exchange, labeled the Iran Oil Bourse, which would rival the aforementioned exchanges in London and New York.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12254.htm


We are so screwed.

[Kolesar]

2. That sounds like something some pissedoff pessimist at the diner would say

The price actually already has shot up to $60 and has sucked the wealth out of America and into Exxon and the oil producing countries.

[redwitch]

3. The working poor of rural and urban America can't afford a hybrid car

Hubby sent an email to Tom Friedman last week inviting him to come and live with us for a week so we can show him what $4.00 gasoline does to the average working stiff. He hsn't replied yet.

[Domitan]

5. Exactly!

That insular fuck Friedman needs to see the impact on the common folk. If he can make it possible for the majority to reasonably obtain hybrid cars and to convert their homes to become more energy-efficient & friendly, then I'll listen with open minds. Otherwise, he's just asking for a tarring and feathering.

[Renew Deal]

12. In theory

mass production of hybrids would reduce the prices. Tax credits are a beautiful thing as well.

[rman]

4. then we better get working on mass production of ethanol and/or corn fuel

Because we don't have anything near the production capacity needed to replace oil/petrol with these alternative fuels.

[lakeguy]

6. how much oil does it take to produce ethanol needed to

replace oil?

[rman]

9. yes, well. production of alt fuels would include alt sources of energy

for that production.
So we have A LOT of work to do, while we're running out of time FAST.
If only we had know sooner that oil would eventually run out... (do i need a sarcasm tag here?)

[Hubert Flottz]

7. It will if the GOP holds it's power in congress in November.

There will be nothing or noone to stop it!

[Strelnikov_]

8. What About Current Accounts Deficit And Dollar Recycling

Seems to me any 'gain' will be greatly offset by:

1) The Current Accounts deficit spiraling further out of control, to $1 T +.

2) Dollars sent to Asia (via deficit) diverted to chasing high priced oil. Recycling system will have to re stabilize somehow, with the US at the wrong end.

Mr. Friedman is like the guy in a car driving off the cliff with his ex-wife, thinking of how he won't have to pay alimony any more.

In other words, it's kind of hard to restructure a collapsing economy. This is not the 70's.

[Renew Deal]

10. I do not read it that way.

There are many here that hope that oil shoots to $100/barrel and they are not neocons. Oil is our great weakness. Too much of our economy and our lives is driven by it. We need to get off of it ASAP because any pissed off dictator in the ME can cause us "pain and harm" with oil policy.

[berni_mccoy]

11. Nothing New Here: Getting the Price Of Oil To Rise IS MOTIVATOR #1

Take a look at the graph in my sig line. Almost every action by the administration has been motivated to cause the price of oil to rise. The oil and defense industry is where these criminals are heavily invested. They did NOT invade Iraq to get Iraq's oil... they invaded it TO CAUSE A DISRUPTION in the world's supply. Attacking Iran will do the same thing. Then they check out with BILLIONS in profit and the world is left to clean up the mess.

All the other crap and stunts they've pulled have been about funnelling taxpayer money into their pet companies. Enron, Haliburton, Tamiflu, Exxon, Blackwater... the list goes on.

We WILL attack Iran because of ONE REASON: GREED.