"But the world isn't like that"

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on 10/14/02 7:57 PM, Mark Wright AIA at mwaia at yahoo.com wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Disagree on both. Germany is very much involved in the oil business.
>> A
>> different sort of involvement than say, the USA's involvement or
>> Iraq's,
>> for sure, but not too unlike Japan's.
> 
> To elaborate:
> I have a dim recollection that the Axis powers in WWII were motivated
> in part by oil -- they didn't have control of enough oil to fuel both
> their domestic industries and their military. Germany had lots of coal
> of its own but no oil and had to devote ingenuity and extra cash to
> producing liquid fuels from solid coal. Japan hadn't enough of either
> coal or oil to fuel its brand new industrializing economy. Each was
> reliant upon foreign oil sources, and resented paying the producers.
> And resented the control over their actions that this supply/demand
> relationship implied. Japan's aggressive colonial wars, which preceded
> the attack on the US, where aimed at control of energy supplies.
> 
> Is this true?
> 
> Mark
> 
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I would like to be associated with the remarks of the previous speaker.
Right on Mark.