Originally Posted by
RadioGod
Fracking does not put gas in our cars. And the reason we want control of their oil is simply because corporations want it. Since the US military is nothing more than hired guns for corporate goals, and their wants become our official government policies, we will make it happen for them. This is our foreign policy in a nutshell.
Also, it still is not clear about oil being renewable. I don't think it is easily renewable.
And energy not being strategic? LOL. That statement takes the cake.
Let me try to clarify our nations policy briefly. We started producing more natural gas with expanded subsidized fracking. We want to export it to Europe. Europe already has pipelines coming out of Russia and the Middle East. Since those pipelines are close to Europe, and we have to use ocean tankers, our gas is more expensive, and less desirable to the EU countries.
In this situation, there are only a few things that can be done to control Russian and Middle Eastern gas and oil.
1.) We can make ours cheaper. Not going to happen, since the objective is to sell it for everything we can get for it.
2.) If we cut, or at least control the flow of gas and oil in their pipelines, we can manipulate pricing so that our own oil and gas is competitive. This is where we have seen strategic spots go into chaos lately, like Syria and the Ukraine. Even Turkey, our longtime friend and ally, is on the table here.
3.) Stop other countries from producing oil and gas altogether, and if they do produce it, we get to sell it. We can put lots of pressure on their countries through sanctions, supporting insider rebellions, propaganda networks and disinformation campaigns, assassinations, homegrown terrorism, and corruption and bribery. The effect of this type of campaign is to totally trash a country's economy and standard of living to the point that the people themselves are begging for change in the streets. Rest assured, whatever government Venezuela had, socialist or not, it could not have withstood our underhanded efforts for long.
The last point to keep in mind here is when I say "we", what I really mean is our biggest corporations telling our government what our foreign policies should be. Our military has long ago stopped being a force for right in the world, and are nothing more than corporate mercenaries now.