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only limiting factor for the foreseeable future is whether its extraction is profitable

You say that like it's a small thing. When oil costs $200 a barrel about fuckall of the common man is going to be able to afford anything but totally essential travel. As it goes higher it won't be affordable at all. Unaffordable gas is the same as no gas.

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Again, I don't disagree with that in any way, but the American government doesn't give a shit about the common man, and they sure as hell didn't invade the middle east for the good of the average American. Profitable oil ≠ Affordable oil. Like I said, we've never in history had more oil available to us and yet it remains near all time high prices to the average person due to profiteering.

I don't disagree that the rest of us are fucked, my point is that that is not why America is in the middle east.

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Our economy doesn't work without cheap oil. I didn't mean to imply it's altruistic.