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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 583740" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>If we had a truly "free market"...then the cost of the invasion/occupation of Iraq and our continued military presence in the Middle East would be paid <em>at the pump</em> by the end user of the fuel instead of being passed on to our grandchildren in the form debt. Gas wouldnt be $2.79 a gallon, it would be more like $5 or $6.</p><p> </p><p>We currently borrow money from China to buy a barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia. We then burn that barrel of oil in our Suburbans and Hummers, with no real concept of how we are ever going to pay that money back. That isnt free market economics.</p><p> </p><p>We have subsidized cheap fuel for too long in the form of tax breaks for oil companies, cheap credit, and a bloated military. Its time to start paying as we go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 583740, member: 14668"] If we had a truly "free market"...then the cost of the invasion/occupation of Iraq and our continued military presence in the Middle East would be paid [I]at the pump[/I] by the end user of the fuel instead of being passed on to our grandchildren in the form debt. Gas wouldnt be $2.79 a gallon, it would be more like $5 or $6. We currently borrow money from China to buy a barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia. We then burn that barrel of oil in our Suburbans and Hummers, with no real concept of how we are ever going to pay that money back. That isnt free market economics. We have subsidized cheap fuel for too long in the form of tax breaks for oil companies, cheap credit, and a bloated military. Its time to start paying as we go. [/QUOTE]
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