The Arabs used us for profitability from their oil reserves more than we ever used them. The families of wealth in the Arabian penninsula would be two-bit camel salesmen without the United States.
As for alternates - in the 70s we got 14% efficiency which was better than expected but when oil prices went down we didn't go back to research.
As for Osama - have you read his speeches? He's the ARab Falwell. He hates America because it's lewd and goes against Islamist agendae. You can read Salman Rushdie's article on pro_war_liberal if you want more info.
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Date: 2003-03-10 09:15 pm (UTC)As for alternates - in the 70s we got 14% efficiency which was better than expected but when oil prices went down we didn't go back to research.
As for Osama - have you read his speeches? He's the ARab Falwell. He hates America because it's lewd and goes against Islamist agendae. You can read Salman Rushdie's article on