A large portion of our defense budget goes to protect the oil supply and defend against hostile nations that use our own oil money against us. We are paying for the R & D effort on the A-bomb that Iran is building to use against us.

People say that, if we didn’t import the oil somebody else would. LET THEM! And let them import the Raghead menace with it. We can and must convert to non-petroleum fuels.

“A tenacious economist with the National Defense Council
Foundation–a right-of-center Washington think tank–Copulos spent
18 solid months poring over hundreds of thousands of pages of
government documents, toiling to fix a price tag on America’s
addiction to global crude. He parsed oil-related defense spending
in the Middle East. He calculated U.S. jobs and investments lost
to steep crude prices. He even factored in the lifelong medical
bills of some 18,000 U.S. troops wounded in Iraq as of March.
(About $1.5 million each.)

“Copulos is a highly respected analyst in Washington. And his
exhaustive findings flabbergasted the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee this spring.

“The actual cost of gasoline refined from imported oil, according
to Copulos?

“Eight dollars a gallon.”

“Consumers don’t dodge the bill for all these masked expenditures.
Instead, they pay for them indirectly, through higher taxes, or by
saddling their children and grandchildren with a ballooning
national debt–one that’s increasingly financed by foreigners. The
result: Unaware of the true costs of their oil habit, U.S.
motorists see no obvious reason to curb their energy gluttony.

“‘Gas isn’t too expensive,’” said Copulos. ‘It’s way, way too cheap.’”