We got this as an email the other day, I think it is just pretty good.

The Arabs Say THANK YOU!


The OPEC minister may look you in the eye and say, "We are at war with you infidels and have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven't even recognized it. You have more missiles, bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy. We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!
While I am here I would like to thank you for the following:
Not developing your 250-300 year supply of oil shale and tar sands. We know if you did this, it would create thousands of jobs for U.S. citizens, expand your engineering capabilities, and keep the wealth in the U.S. instead of sending it to us to finance our war against you infidels.
Thanks for limiting Defense Department purchases of oil sands from your neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.
Thanks for over regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying, by decades, the development of alternate fuel technologies.
Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in Alaska, and anywhere there is an insect, bird, fish, or plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer. Glad to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.
Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you will destroy yourself from the inside with theses types of policies. This is a gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use more energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive up food prices. Thank you U.S. Congress!

And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece you without end. You will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your debt and now manipulate your markets, currency, and economies for our benefit.

THANK YOU AMERICA!'

<<< use more energy to create less energy >>>

It boggles the mind to consider how much fuel a 454 Chevy drinks, throttle pulled 3/4 out, running 24/7, sucking the Ogalala dry, four engines to a square mile, feeding irrigated corn in western KS for the ethanol plants. UNSTAINABLE!

My dad and I threw a chain on a big old 800 cubic inch MM that was sitting in the corner of our roundtop gathering dust, drug it out with the tractor and loader, and set it down on the flat bed. Put it down on the overloads. That's some serous iron. We headed for the Texas panhandle with that baby. They wanted those motors down there and they were paying good money for them. I kid you not. If I remember correctly, they were dragging water up to their center pivots from a thousand feet deep. Now that takes some fuel (and some ponies) to lift an 8" column of water 1000', and push it through a sprinkler at 40 psi.

Scott, you sure have a way with words,lol! But it's all ever so true. I can just visualize the scenario you explained. I also am totally against raising corn for fuel. But then I am not a corn farmer and reaping the benefits with the high corn prices.

Corn based Ethenol is a complete sham. It is such a shame that whoever started this program didn't do their homework until billions were spent building plants. Now they have finally done the math, and oops, it is not an energy saver afterall. Just another way to run the aquifers dry and raise the price of food!

Regarding Locklady's original post, what is wrong with us Americans?

For a nation to willingly be dependent on another nation for it's fuel or other vital things seems strange.

Concerning the American economy, I sort of was wondering when the U.S. owes other countries money, can they pay back the debt by paying the same number of U.S. dallors, even if the U.S. dollar becomes worth much less? If so inflation in reality decreases the U.S. debt to other countries.

Regarding inflation, it tends to make all outstanding debts seem small. Thus if debts are a countries problem cannot inflation be a good thing? To pay back a debt with deflated dallors really is not right, yet it might be a way out. It really takes the money away from those who have large figures of money and makes it easier for those who owe them money to pay them back. Brazil at one time had tremendous inflation, requiring interest to be possibly 40 percent to just cover inflation. I think printing money is an indirect way to get taxes to pay debts through devaluating peoples money. Yet I have lots of questions about the economy.

Yet even if their would be a way for our country to get out of it's financial bind, when God says these people have forsaken me and gone too far, it will be enough. He can cause people to make bad decisions to make His plan happen. Is that what is happening in America? May God have mercy on us.