Thursday, March 27, 2003

Geneva Overholser spells out what we are not seeing about this war and about the real relationship between American oil companies and Saddam Hussein. She goes on to say: "Why is so little written about this? And why is so little said about the enormous growth in America' s reliance on foreign oil? W hen I was a cub reporter in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s, all the talk was about the danger of such reliance. At that point, 30-something percent of our oil came from overseas. Now it's 60 percent. The Wall Street had a good piece -- "Why the U.S. Is Still Hooked On Oil Imports" -- on March 18 (subscribers only) that reminds us just how much we are at the mercy of oil-producing countries today. Shouldn't this question have been more a part of the pre-war conversation? Wouldn't most Americans be happy to drive a couple of miles less a week? Turn the thermostat down a few degrees? Shouldn't there have been more talk about a failure of political leadership in this regard? Aren't we operating in a pretty narrow rut of media coverage here? "

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