According to this source, the U.S. Imports 35% OPEC oil and 20% Persian Gulf oil:
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
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Iran Nuclear Agreement
- Thread starter Jake1001
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http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
Consider.....
- We get more from Canuckistan than any mid-east country.
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=727&t=6
- Only about 27% of our oil is imported.
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=32&t=6
- We have the option of increasing domestic production, & this would happen if prices rose.
(Current production is down because of the low prices. A friend is in this business, & he is in a holding pattern right now.)
- We have the option of increasing reliance upon coal & gas if there's a shortage of oil.
- Our mid-east meddling hasn't stabilized things.
- Our mid-east meddling has cost us far more than the value of the oil we buy.
(The Iraq war alone is over $2,000,000,000,000.)
I'd wager that the money pissed away in mid-east foreign adventurism & dealing with the resulting domestic terrorism could eliminate all imports if invested in domestic renewable energy sources.
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As a result of the "Iran nuclear agreement" Iran will become a very rich nation, with all the sanctions being lifted, they will obtain billions of dollars (even without the deal, but just by showing up at the negotiation table), and will be able to sell their abundance of oil; Russia well help them along, and Iran will gain billions upon billions of dollars more. Over the years through their great wealth, Iran will become more and more secular and so will their religious leaders. Out of all this will rise a secular ayatollah who will still use religion to influence the people of Iran and its government. With all their riches Iran will develop a great nuclear arsenal, be it 10 or 15 years from now or sooner, again with the help of Russian long range missile technology. Where the hell to do you think WW III shall originate? Israel will be the first casualty, then the West, though on a lesser scale; nation by nation, city by city. Borak Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, the US Senate, and those other European "leaders" will go down in history as the most stupid and naïve "leaders" in mass since the British prime-minister Chamberlin. Its coming folks and we and our children shall bare witness to it.
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The ignorance is appalling.
I would also say that the idiotic mindset and naivety is just as appalling to me.
Thanx to you, I'm ditching "naivete" for "naivety".
It's less cheese eating surrender monkey sounding.
It can be spelled both ways. They both mean the same.
The only thing this Khamenei with the pompous title "Supreme" Leader of Iran is qualified for is to iron my shirt. This mental midget is sophomoric even in what he claims is his forte, the Quran. I bet if me and mister "there's a Jew hiding under my bed!" Mullah mouth were set down before an impartial panel of Islamic scholars from all muslim sects worldwide, I would defeat this throwback hands down on the finer elements of the Quran and declared the "victor" by the panel, and I am not even a Muslim, I am a Hindu.
But this fascist with a bomb in his turban won't debate muslims in his own country, he only knows how to kill them along with a rather mental fear of Bahai'is as if their touch gives germs. It is pretty clear now, accounting for his constant 12 year old mentality in his declarations, tweets, and statements from this tottering 76 year old broom, this guy is an illegal alien on the planetary scale, he snuck in to planet earth and needs to be deported from the universe, he definetly is a criminal alien in the solar system. Shave his legs, please.
The Bahá'í Faith is the largest religious minority in Iran, with around 300,000 members and 8,000,000 members worldwide and is officially considered a dangerous cult by this throwback - that alone reveals that he has the brain of an old worm infested potato. He has this quirky phobia that they are going to give him germs, I swear to God. He needs to stop killing them, because rumor is he has even had suspicions one of his sons is a secret Bahai "agent of deceit".
We know from the underground Green Movement which he murders, and which has survivors in exile in France, of his private opulence and eccentric stomach issues after constantly gorging on caviar. He blabbers incoherent threats, like yesterday his old man madcap blather that Israel won't exist in 25 years (viz because he is personally going to call the "madhi" from a well in Persia and then he will personally beat to death every Jew with one of his 107 bejeweled and rhino tusk and elephant ivory walking sticks with the "madhi's" blessing during the "blessed" nuclear war). The one thing that is for sure that won't exist in 25 years is this old man who will be dead a long time before 25 years from his wretched health problems. Maybe from smoking, too, he has this huge collection of bejeweled pipes that he keeps in his "penthouse" in one of the former Shah's palace. I feel sorry for this old creep's horses, he also has the stable of lineage horses as his personal collection, he doesn't even know two of them are "Jewish" (from an old line raised by Jewish ancestors) that are probably the best of the entire stable. There is an account with his name on the online TVI horse racing website, some speculate it's him though unproven but I "bet" he plays the ponies. Anyway, he has a known and constant bout with depression and actually betting on horse races has proven it helps enliven the depressed and study of the Daily Racing Form stimulates the mind, he doesn't read the Quran very well anyway since his public statements put a light on his ignorance of Quran and Islam. His vulgar jokes actually are not funny, he is about as funny as Hillary Clinton. One thing Hillary and this old man share in common is it seems some of his wide-reaching business connections, including interests in European manufacturers, African mobile phone companies and international commodities markets, includes some of the same one's Hillary has. It's true, they have differences, too, Hillary doesn't have that big, knob end, Jewish nose the old man has ... but Bill does.
This guy has to wear special cloaks woven from hair of specially bred camels. Wonder how these camels are specially bred. I think he keeps some of them in one of his six palaces, including Niavaran, the former resident of the Shah in Tehran. Two of the palaces - Niavaran and Vakilabad - are equipped with deep, reinforced concrete bunker. I guess to protect him from those Bahai'is and his phobia with their "germs".
What an old nutty mullah. Any "agreement" with this hag is as about negotiating with an old mule that sits in his own wagon and is going to fall between two stools of his phobias and his old man hissy jobs. It will be broken before the pigeon on his head poops.
But this fascist with a bomb in his turban won't debate muslims in his own country, he only knows how to kill them along with a rather mental fear of Bahai'is as if their touch gives germs. It is pretty clear now, accounting for his constant 12 year old mentality in his declarations, tweets, and statements from this tottering 76 year old broom, this guy is an illegal alien on the planetary scale, he snuck in to planet earth and needs to be deported from the universe, he definetly is a criminal alien in the solar system. Shave his legs, please.
The Bahá'í Faith is the largest religious minority in Iran, with around 300,000 members and 8,000,000 members worldwide and is officially considered a dangerous cult by this throwback - that alone reveals that he has the brain of an old worm infested potato. He has this quirky phobia that they are going to give him germs, I swear to God. He needs to stop killing them, because rumor is he has even had suspicions one of his sons is a secret Bahai "agent of deceit".
We know from the underground Green Movement which he murders, and which has survivors in exile in France, of his private opulence and eccentric stomach issues after constantly gorging on caviar. He blabbers incoherent threats, like yesterday his old man madcap blather that Israel won't exist in 25 years (viz because he is personally going to call the "madhi" from a well in Persia and then he will personally beat to death every Jew with one of his 107 bejeweled and rhino tusk and elephant ivory walking sticks with the "madhi's" blessing during the "blessed" nuclear war). The one thing that is for sure that won't exist in 25 years is this old man who will be dead a long time before 25 years from his wretched health problems. Maybe from smoking, too, he has this huge collection of bejeweled pipes that he keeps in his "penthouse" in one of the former Shah's palace. I feel sorry for this old creep's horses, he also has the stable of lineage horses as his personal collection, he doesn't even know two of them are "Jewish" (from an old line raised by Jewish ancestors) that are probably the best of the entire stable. There is an account with his name on the online TVI horse racing website, some speculate it's him though unproven but I "bet" he plays the ponies. Anyway, he has a known and constant bout with depression and actually betting on horse races has proven it helps enliven the depressed and study of the Daily Racing Form stimulates the mind, he doesn't read the Quran very well anyway since his public statements put a light on his ignorance of Quran and Islam. His vulgar jokes actually are not funny, he is about as funny as Hillary Clinton. One thing Hillary and this old man share in common is it seems some of his wide-reaching business connections, including interests in European manufacturers, African mobile phone companies and international commodities markets, includes some of the same one's Hillary has. It's true, they have differences, too, Hillary doesn't have that big, knob end, Jewish nose the old man has ... but Bill does.
This guy has to wear special cloaks woven from hair of specially bred camels. Wonder how these camels are specially bred. I think he keeps some of them in one of his six palaces, including Niavaran, the former resident of the Shah in Tehran. Two of the palaces - Niavaran and Vakilabad - are equipped with deep, reinforced concrete bunker. I guess to protect him from those Bahai'is and his phobia with their "germs".
What an old nutty mullah. Any "agreement" with this hag is as about negotiating with an old mule that sits in his own wagon and is going to fall between two stools of his phobias and his old man hissy jobs. It will be broken before the pigeon on his head poops.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Too bad you are so jealous of us.
Signed, da Frog.
The joke of it is, when this dithering old duck Khamenei the "Supreme" of Iran violates the "agreement", and it will be violated right away, it probably won't be a purposeful deceit but rather, just as likely or even probable, this old broom will wake up one morning half confused and dithering, ordering some bomb this or that immediately "or else face the rack", some peon will run off in fear to set it in motion, then four hours later when one of his hunchbacks enters his tea room in one of his palaces to report that the U.K. says his orders "violated the agreement", the old dope will look back at the hunchback with a confused look on his face and say:
"Agreement? Wha??? Eee, ah, I don't know what you're talking about. And where's my cane? Damn it. where did I put that thing, did one of you hunchbacks steal it? And what the hell is wrong with this dang T.V. remote, does it need batteries again! I can't change the T.V. channels!" (as he holds his Blackberry phone in his hand pushing buttons and pointing it at the boob tube).
He won't remember he even signed anything.
"Agreement? Wha??? Eee, ah, I don't know what you're talking about. And where's my cane? Damn it. where did I put that thing, did one of you hunchbacks steal it? And what the hell is wrong with this dang T.V. remote, does it need batteries again! I can't change the T.V. channels!" (as he holds his Blackberry phone in his hand pushing buttons and pointing it at the boob tube).
He won't remember he even signed anything.
I'd never anything so petty as exhibit jealousy.
It's blind, rancid, perverted hatred it is, ya quiche eat'n, heavy cream sauce slurp'n, beret wear'n, harmonium squeeze'n, Jerry Lewis idolizer!
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Hit me again-- PALEASE!!!!
Here is an update on Senate deliberations:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/15/us/politics/ap-us-congress-iran-nuclear.html
Any thoughts?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/15/us/politics/ap-us-congress-iran-nuclear.html
Any thoughts?
I really want to spank some people.
Right, the Senate really knows how to waste taxpayer dollars. But there are some important underlying issues, anyone care to debate them?
I'll just opine that I prefer the peaceful deal Obama worked to the more militaristic alternatives.
Yes, and the Senate Repubs don't have the votes to override an Obama veto, so it's really just a debate society.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
It's tragic really that such an important deal is going through with little more of an obstacle than a speed bump.
To me, it looks like early campaigning for the '16 elections, ie, "debate" is primarily primarily posturing.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
No, you totally misinterpreted what Revolt was saying when he said this: "I really want to spank some people". He's into S & M-- you know, whips & chains kinda stuff.