Maybe the U.S.A. should just tax the rest of the world.

[Rick]

But I want to solve our debt problems on the backs of the rest of the world Damnit!

That's Andrew

I'm just razzin Gob

[Rick]

Or the straits of hormuz...

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, on an average day in 2011, about 14 tankers carrying 17 million barrels (2,700,000 m3) of crude oil passed out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait. This was said to represent 35% of the world's seaborne oil shipments, and 20% of oil traded worldwide. The report stated that more than 85 percent of these crude oil exports went to Asian markets, with Japan, India, South Korea and China the largest destinations

I'm sure Japan, India, South Korea and China are very grateful for your support.

Supply & Demand Facts
o Australia consumes a very small proportion of global crude oil production.
o Around 70% of crude oil used in Australian refineries is imported (30% is from Australian oilfields).
o In 2006-07, these imported crudes were sourced from over 16 countries mainly from:
Asia-Pacific - around 80% of imports (or 55% of crude oil requirements)
Middle East - around 20% of imports (or 15% of crude oil requirements).

http://www.aip.com.au/pdf/AIP%20Paper%2 ... bility.pdf

Guess they're just turnin around and sellin it to ya'll.

[Lord Jim]

Aust reliant on Middle East oil: experts

Oil and its refinery by-products play a fundamental role in just about every part of Australian life, and a large amount of it originates in the Middle East.

Graeme Bethune, chief executive officer of energy advisory firm EnergyQuest, explains.

"Only about 13 per cent of the crude oil that we import comes from the Middle East, but we import increasing amounts of refined petrol and diesel from Singapore and Singapore gets most of its feed stock from the Middle East," he said.

"So if you take account of all that, about a third of our liquid fuels come from the Middle East now."

Mr Bethune says Australia receives more oil from the Middle East than the US does, to make up for declining local output.

"We're getting a little bit of a kick up now through three or four new oil projects, and BHP announced one called Pyrenees that starts in 2010," he said.

"But that's basically all there is in the pipeline at the moment.

"So after that we'll expect oil production to keep falling quite quickly."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-07-06/a ... erts/91502

So, in so far as the benefit that Australia derives from the US military securing The Straits Of Hormuz is concerned, I guess the only thing I can say is....


You're welcome....

[Rick]

Same time...

[Gob]

So what was the point of all this again, something about the US "taxing" other countries, has the movement got a facebook page?

[Rick]

So what was the point of all this again, something about the US "taxing" other countries, has the movement got a facebook page?

That's the spirit Gob with foreign support like you're offering this thing could easily take wings...

[Sean]

Is it even a hashtag?

[Lord Jim]

That's the spirit Gob with foreign support like you're offering this thing could easily take wings...

Yes, Strop, perhaps you'd like to take on responsibility for heading up the Australian Auxiliary effort....

You could organize a public campaign for voluntary contributions...

Australian school kids could hold bake sales and send the proceeds to the US Naval Department...

A modest surcharge could be levied on the sale of every cricket match ticket....

Local businesses and service organizations could band together in an "Adopt A Carrier" program...

[Rick]

Is it even a hashtag?

With Gobs Help you betcha, if it ain't it will be toot sweet.

I can see it now "The Carrier Crickit Test"...

[Gob]

A I said, priorities people, priorities!

[Rick]

Carriers have bombers...

[Lord Jim]

Perhaps a PBS style pledge drive would be the thing....

"And for your $500 pledge, you get not only the USS Ronald Reagan Official Ship Cap, and the complete box set of the award winning documentary series, Victory At Sea, but also the beautiful. leather bound, fully illustrated book, Great American Naval Victories....

[Rick]

Goose bumps...

[Rick]

I feel so, so empowered...

[Sean]

And so you should Keld...


So you should.

[loCAtek]

Our new recruiting poster;

[dales]

No disrespect to the USN.

I think their PSA's are a little lame.

[Jarlaxle]

So what was the point of all this again, something about the US "taxing" other countries, has the movement got a facebook page?

Andrew's mental masturbation.

[Andrew D]

I certainly didn't see the US Navy responding, for example, when EU fishing boats were violating treaties and illegally fishing in Atlantic waters near to North America, nor would you have been expected to, because you didn't see your economic interests being threatened, and they were dealt with by those who did.

Well, let's see.

If you are referring to the so-called "turbot war," Canada seized a Spanish fishing trawler in international waters. So who was doing what illegally?

The resolution of the matter required Canada to return $500,000 to the owners of the Spanish trawler, to repeal the regulations which had authorized it (under its own domestic law) to seize the Spanish trawler, and to accept a reduction in its own turbot allocation from NAFO -- a treaty-based organization of which the US was not a member. So who was doing what illegally?

If I were to suggest that the US should appoint itself the arbiter of international disputes over such things as fish stocks -- especially disputes in which, as it turns out, each side was making legitimate points -- the howls of derision would blow out my laptop screen.

But you had no hesitation in asserting your "right" to traverse Canadian internal waters in the Arctic, where you were clearly not welcome.

Are you referring to the US waters which Canada wrongly claims?

Or to the international waters which Canada wrongly claims?

[Rick]

Thanks Andrew I didn't now what he was referring to.

Not that that is any surprise...