How about fossil fuels as a strategic resource in the current _technological_ regime, strategic as a means of production and not so much a good or means of consumption ?
Charles
Michael Pollak wrote:
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>Control only makes sense in time of war. Then it does make sense. Or it
>did -- back when we had enemies that could conceivably threaten us. We're
>still acting like we do.
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>You're totally right about the economic argument. But you can't disprove
>a strategic argument with an economic one.
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>I tried to furnish the strategic disproof in my earlier post
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>URL: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2003/2003-March/008879.html
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2003/2003-March/008879.html>
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>for every possible meaning of "strategic control."