>>>1. Become independent of the need for oil being purchased from others and from our own wells.
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>>>a. Stop all investment in Iraq ($87 billion) and develop fuel cell technology using these monies. Fuel cells are already being developed by General Motors. More investment means quicker success.
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>>>2. Decreased need of OPEC oil will mean that the Arabic and Muslim nations can once again be turned into sand as they were before European intervention.
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>>>a. This will eliminate the funding through oil purchases of terrorism throughout the world. We are the primary means of funding of such activities.
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>>>b. With decreased demand for oil on the world market the price per barrel will increase so the rulers and terrorists will have a stable and predictable income.
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>>>3. To protect ourselves we should use any means possible. Do you know what happens when sand is heated to temperatures that can be produced by nuclear devices? It turns to glass!
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>>>It is a good thing that I am a liberal person as if I was a conservative I would take a more serious approach to this subject.
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>>Hiya Tom. Not sure what to make of your post. Are you being serious?
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>Yes, I am serious! Oh well, it is Friday and we should be happy and all that. :)

Just two points then Tom, (1) oil purchases' may fund some terrorism but is not the cause of it. We should consider the causes of it rather than where some of the funding comes from. (2) a nuclear war leaves no one as a winner. There is no regional or local nuclear war. And there are very few things that could ever justify its use, or the use of numerous other equally terrible weapons.