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Originally posted by fastpat
Unfortunately, that's myth. There is no need for military operations to keep mid-east oil flowing. In fact, although it's true that once oil is in transport it's more or less fungible, American really doesn't need any mid-east oil at all.
One of the uses for mid-eastern oil is to passify environuts here in America; it replaces oil that could be pumped here. Drilling should be done every place where oil can economically extracted, but huge areas are currently off limits. That should end as well.
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In that case we shift the "cost" from overseas military operations to destruction of our domestic environment. I'd still rather subsidize corn.