"Cardman" wrote in message
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I am still doubtful, when coal is a little hard to get burning on its
own. Add some oil though and you will have your underground fire in no
time.

Considering the salt mines are near the coal mine fires....


So you can just imagine the US Army packing thousands of oil drums
into a coal mine, then it is "whoops" some soldier dropped a match.

Umm, you really think they use drums? There's a reason they use salt mine.


Anyway, the U.S is indeed very touchy over the oil, when its whole
society depends on it.

As is most of Europe and Japan. Any major industrial nation depends
greatly
upon oil.

Yes, but no one depends on it as much as the US does. As you do not
even have sidewalks between your towns, where also everyone drives
just about everywhere including the local shop.

Right, some depend on it more than others. Try Japan. Try several European
countries.

As for sidewalks between towns... you do realize the SIZE of this country?
We've got states that it can take 8+ hours to drive through.



We in the UK have our own oil in the North Sea.

And we have Alaska, Texas, the Gulf of Mexico and several others. Right now
it's cheaper to get it from other nations, but not impossible to get it
locally if we wanted.



Ok, so it was a bad idea for Iraq to do that, but you have to wonder
how much Kuwaiti oil played a part. Then these days the U.S has
"freed" the oil in Iraq for the benefit of the people, but no sign of
those weapons of mass destruction yet.

Of course Kuwaiti oil had something to do with it. They were slant drilling
into Iraqi reserves after all. :-)



Anyway, the good news is that the Iraqi People can now have a
McDonalds and Pepsi, under the US oil for cheese burger scheme. ;-]

Cardman.