The point has escaped you Joe. The conclusion you draw below has nothing to do with what I wrote (not "my" logic, as I said, I have no skin in this game, but you missed that too apparently). And you're right, this isn't the place to discuss it. On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
And this is why we're about to be overrun by Venezuela or Saudi Arabia! By your logic, any number of countries can conquer us. It's not the oil reserves you personally have in your country, but the reserves you can tap into, that count. Germany's big mistake was to invade Russia; I suspect Russia could have defeated them single-handedly. Instead, they were hammered in both directions. And in modern warfare even if you have access to reserves at home or elsewhere, the supplies can be knocked out. We need to be a bit more flexible in our thinking here. If Chuck and Siegfried are right, it doesn't matter whether we drill every national park, monument and wilderness area in Utah -- we're doomed. Even Canada can kick our butts. Of course, the argument isn't right. Nuclear bombs are a much better deterrence than a Kuwait-size oil field. Geopolitics is a little too complex for that, and I suspect, light years out of the realm of the Utah Astronomy newsgroup. -- Joe