Seems that our occupation of Iraq would open up more oil to come to the US, meaning by law of supply and demand, lower prices. Here are some questions to test your critical thinking capacities.
1) How long now has Iraqi oil been on the open market?
2) And what has the trend been in that time for oil prices?
3) Where is the money spent for this oil going?
4) What is the connection of this to the oil-rich President Bush, VP Cheney and Halliburton?
5) What logical inferences can be made to fill in the blanks?
source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15891104-13762,00.html#1
"In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects.
Critics argue that if these fetuses are allowed to develop into self-aware subjects, science will be thrown into an ethical nightmare...
Science WILL be thrown into an ethical nightmare!
Experienced theologins will HAVE to tell science the answers to the following questions:
Do these monkeys posess "the breath of life" referred to in Genesis?
Can these monkeys go to heaven or hell?
Is America's sence of puritanical values really the best value set to force on the world?
But wait, there's more.
"An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and may in fact produce subjects with a 'super-animal' intelligence.
I understand. So what you're saying is that it's more important that we not have a few super-intelligent monkeys (like, say one's that we could play chess with) and that people with brain damage be left to rot? Sounds ethical to me.
One of the best examples (of capitalism, free-enterprise, or big business) is the energy industry, where "big oil" is a perennial scapegoat for everything from pollution to price gouging. Yet the statistics present quite a different picture. In 1913, gasoline cost 27 cents a gallon, and a 12-gallon fill-up cost 30% of the average American's weekly earnings, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Even if the price had merely kept pace with inflation, the same gallon of gas would cost around $21 today. Of course, gas is much cheaper than that — and today's formulas are the cleanest and most fuel efficient in history.
source: http://www.smartmoney.com/tradecraft/index.cfm?story=20021111
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