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Originally posted by spoogemonkey
Plain and simple if it came down to world turmoil, the US could cut off ALL food exports and keep its population fed AND defended. No other country could.
hrmm.. are you sure? looks to me like you couldn't. If oil dried up in terms of importation (US being a net importer), you'd have no way of satisfying the fuel requirements regarding domestic logistics. It'd have to be local produce upon which you'd rely, and that current infrastructure isn't built for such a scenario (nor is it in most places internationally). There'd be a shock.. much like the oil shock in the 70's ironically enough.
Carry on American.
Originally posted by KnowledgeSeeker81
reply to post by KoolerKing
We have more than enough resources in America to supply energy, don't forget about Alaska. For some stupid reason rather than use our own we feel the need to purchase our resources (oil) from others waiting for the peak oil production point and then we will corner the market *grins smugly* but we will find an alternative (a public alternative) to oil long before peak oil production. As far as precious metals, Alaska...Nuclear recources, our homeland, and Alaska.
Alaska has countless resources we don't touch as we call it a nature preserve. There is a reason we have so much military force there, to keep it ours.
Originally posted by KnowledgeSeeker81
Plain and simple if it came down to world turmoil, the US could cut off ALL food exports and keep its population fed AND defended. No other country could.
hrmm.. are you sure? looks to me like you couldn't. If oil dried up in terms of importation (US being a net importer), you'd have no way of satisfying the fuel requirements regarding domestic logistics. It'd have to be local produce upon which you'd rely, and that current infrastructure isn't built for such a scenario (nor is it in most places internationally). There'd be a shock.. much like the oil shock in the 70's ironically enough.
Carry on American.
Alaska...one simple word to explain the oil issue. There's a reason we bought it, and there's a reason we built a pipeline, and there's a reason we have an INCREDIBLE amount of military forces there (it's not cuz we're afraid of the ruskies) to defend it. So yes, if the US was cut off from all oil imports we would have plenty to rely on. If our supply from Alaska somehow were to be interrupted, there would be turmoil for sure, but that brings me back to my point of feed AND defend in my 1st reply.
Yes, i am an American, and tbh I do take offense to being called that, as usually that is meant as an insult. I'll tell you tho, as much as I dislike this country and government, there isn't another one out there I'm afraid of, so yea, go America.
Originally posted by EL1A5
I was going through some old pictures of mine and found some that I completely forgot about; they have somewhat to do with the collapse of the USA and the interesting part is it came from Obama himself.
please excuse the sizes:
I had another one about the whole gun control but I can not seem to find it.
The last picture is the one that can really relate to this topic.
It just seems that a lot of people have forgotten the words he said before and now are shocked to what is happening. He laid it out in plain site for us to see, yet some remain blind.
wiki.answers.com...'Meet_the_Press'_transcript_for_Sept_7_2008_Obama_US_flag_stance
There is a hoax about President Obama, the Flag and a Meet the Press program on Sept 7, 2008. The email about disrespecting the US flag that attributed absurd dialogue to President Obama was fiction. The president was never on Meet the Press that day, and the times he was on, he never said anything bad about the flag. You can get the transcript from the link in the related links section below. You can also find a link to the transcript for the DECEMBER 2008 Meet the Press when Barack Obama was a guest, but the word Flag was again not mentioned.
It was written by John Semmens in 2007 in his Arizona Conservative Blog which he labels "semi-news, a satirical review of the events shaping our nation and the world" Semmens made up all the dialogue. You used to be able to get it from his blog, but now his archives only go back to 2009. Someone took it from his column, expanded the satire, wrapped it in a lie, and started forwarding it as if it were an email of truth.