Onyered wrote: I guess it was to keep the Japanese from invading Australia.
MrPC wrote:I doubt it. The US had far greater resources to base its negotiations on. They probably knew all about peak oil, and negotiated from this position. Heck, the invasions of a country that would be a strategic pipeline location, but more importantly, the invasion of a (potentially) major oil producer, on flimsy pretexts, seem to be evidence of this knowledge.
Concerned Citizen wrote:The US is a fascist militarist state which sees violence as a solution to just about any problem.
I would put practically nothing past them.
Whitecrab wrote:-I read somewhere, but I can't recall, that Canada can only reduce it's exports to the States if we reduce our own useage. But doesnt' that mean, once we realize oil and gas have peaked, it's doubly useful to cut our own consumption? (Every cubic foot we trim saves us two, in a sense).
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