Re: Re: Oil & Socialism

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:55 PM 11/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Yes, but I'm more concerned about the politics of oil supplies than either
> of the above, since it tends to make hundreds of bloody imperial flowers
> bloom & unleash the dogs of war.  I feel this way perhaps because I'm from
> Japan (remember World War 2!)

Yes, I understand. I was responding to Mark's somewhat apocalyptic attitude
toward oil supplies. Even if there is no absolute limit of the sort he
talks about, there have been a hell of a lot of wars over oil. (Also, did
you know that the USSR probably cut Cuba's oil supplies in 1968 to get
Castro to endorse their invasion of Czechoslovakia that year?)

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine