[Vision2020] On Nationalizing Energy

[Ted Moffett]

Our energy policy is already "nationalized."  We spend billions of taxpayers
dollars on military efforts to ensure access to oil resources to guarantee
that the multinational economic system, in which the US economy is
inextricably linked, maintains functionality.  The cost of oil as a primary
fuel for our civilization should include these military adventures, with
taxpayers paying a huge oil tax to the Pentagon for the defense of oil.  And
if someone thinks this theory is "left wing" propaganda, when former US
Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, a free market "Milton Friedman"
style thinker, left the Federal Reserve, and thus could speak more freely,
it seems, he stated plainly he thought oil was a major factor in the
invasion of Iraq:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

Quote below from URL above:

However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is
likely to provoke the most controversy. "I am saddened that it is
politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is
largely about oil," he says.

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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
On 8/26/08, nickgier at adelphia.net <nickgier at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Hi Roger:
>
> This is pure John Birch paranoia about nationalizing energy.  Why do you
> continue to destroy your credibility on this list?  You used to work at a
> major university, which prizes evidence based results, and yet you continue
> to offer totally unsubstantiated claims.
>
> McCain also talks about change, so does that allow me draw any implications
> I want from that premise of change?  Of course not.
>
> Nick
>
>
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