Increased exports?It's more that US involvement in said wars has to do with oil.
Increased exports?
It makes no difference which countries we buy our oil from. If oil supplies are disrupted, the prices go up for everyone. We aren't net exporters of oil so any disruption in supply will only hurt us.
The United States will become a net oil and gas exporter by 2022, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in this year’s edition of its Annual Energy Outlook. Slower domestic demand, along with growth in natural gas, oil, and oil product production will drive the transformation, the EIA said.![]()
U.S. To Become Net Oil And Gas Exporter In 5 Years | OilPrice.com
The United States is set to become a net oil and gas exporter within the next five years, according to this year’s Annual Energy Outlookoilprice.com
That sounds like President Trump’s dream of energy dominance come true, but of course, this would only happen under certain circumstances, as the EIA notes in the beginning of the report. For starters, the forecasting model the authority uses stipulates annual economic growth of between 1.5 percent and 2.6 percent between 2017 and 2050, with energy demand varying between flat and growing by 0.7 percent.
Another important stipulation in the model is the growing adoption of renewable energy and natural gas instead of oil. These are trends we can already see, and they will likely only intensify, despite the 30-percent import tariff on Chinese solar modules, which caused some to fear that the U.S. solar industry would suffer a severe blow. While the tariffs may be a deterrent to the solar industry, it will get a boost from favorable federal and state renewable energy policies, tax incentives, and lower costs thanks to technological improvements.
Oil and gas production will also continue to grow along with renewables, although oil production growth will stagnate around 2032, according to the EIA forecast. As demand at home slackens, oil and gas will have to find other buyers. Higher oil prices, the EIA notes, will motivate higher exports and lower local consumption, so the country could become a net oil and gas exporter even before 2022 if prices are high enough.
Like I said, we are not now, nor have we ever been, a net oil exporter. Meaning any disruption in supply will only hurt us. The fact that this might change in 3 years is irrelevant to our current and past motives for involvement in the middle east.
When I say "hurt" us, by that I mean it will cause gas prices to go up for a time. Longer term, it only helps us if gas prices go up because that encourages development and use of cleaner sources.
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also OP, you might want to read up on the 1953 Iranian Coup where British interests talked the US government into overthrowing the duly elected government all because they had the audacity to want their oil fields nationalized and the brits did not like that.
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1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia
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a lot of the troubles in the region can be traced back to that.
It makes no difference which countries we buy our oil from. If oil supplies are disrupted, the prices go up for everyone. We aren't net exporters of oil so any disruption in supply will only hurt us.
So Cheney wasn't a greedy a-hole but a racist, greedy a-hole?It hurts the consumers, which means it helps the people that control the prices/distribution. Which is why Cheney, et al have long masturbated over killing all the browns to sew perpetual chaos in that region as possible.
Very well said!!! --The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln appeared to me in a dream.
He said "You can have all the wars about oil some of the time, and you can have some of the wars about oil all of the time. But you can't have none of the wars about oil all of the time."
Most of the wars in modern history included oil as a causative or decisive factor.
World War I was triggered by Turkey's threats to cut off middle-eastern oil to British shipping -- so the British could fuel their homes and their ships.
Looking at Germany's own oil resources today (they hardly have spit), it reflects Germany's situation with oil in the time of Trump's earlier Satanic incarnation. Why did he split up the Panzers on the eastern front? To capture the Baku oil-fields. If he hadn't done that, he might have actually won the Battle of Stalingrad.
Then, the Cold War, the overthrow of Iran's Mossadegh and all that history since -- up to this very moment. Vietnam and oil in the South China Sea. Japan's need for a Southeast Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, because they didn't have much oil.
It has always been a struggle for resources. We have a Strategic Oil Reserve; oil is a "Strategic Mineral".
There's no sense anymore in splitting hairs about this. Why is Trump against windmill power generation and solar? Because President Satan Beelzebub Anti-Christ won't have a justification for war if we no longer need oil. With no justification for war, he can't mobilize national unity to stay in power and destroy the human race.
It's all very simple. Apocalypse is upon us. We can only be obligated to struggle against Satan's Spawn in the White House, even as saving the world and winning the eternal war of Good versus Evil has a questionable chance of success.
Resist.
Impeach.
Defeat.
Overthrow.

There are two views of this. Either you totally believe the American system works to promote the Good and never exhibits failure farts like a wrong-turn president or quickly corrects them, or you worry that the Congress might not save us from this scourge and we're running out of time.Very well said!!! -- View attachment 10828
I don't think that you will have to worry about the Secret Service as they are most likely keeping Trump from the Football and the Codes...There are two views of this. Either you totally believe the American system works to promote the Good and never exhibits failure farts like a wrong-turn president or quickly corrects them, or you worry that the Congress might not save us from this scourge and we're running out of time.
I could worry about my words getting Secret Service attention. But I'm more worried about whomever saw the long game and the largest number of chess-moves with this Saudi tank-farm drone attack. What are we going to do then? Bow and go along with it?
Sumbitch has got to go! He's got to go! I was hoping we could prevail on Pope Francis to set up a platform in the middle of Lafayette Square and perform a Papally Powerful Exorcism. No luck with that. He's already too busy bothering Brazil's president about the Amazon burning.
I too am concerned that we will get dragged into this as mostly a political ploy to save his failing re-election attempts. People are just stupid enough to fall for it.what worries me more than anything is the "trump quote for every occasion"...this occasion being "obama will start a war in the middle east to get reelected"
Now I'm even more worried. But we knew that from the beginning. You could see who and what he was in the middle of '16. Frankly, I knew who and what he was during the ~2010 birther frenzy. I just couldn't imagine the enormity of it at that time. And who would've thought . . . the Russians, the swing states? Who would've fully imagined even if they imagined at all?I don't think that you will have to worry about the Secret Service as they are most likely keeping Trump from the Football and the Codes...![]()
