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About this whole thing...


Does this make sense?


The world runs using the U.S. dollar as a standard.  Hypothetical example:  Brazil wants the equivalent of 100 US dollars from every country in the world for coffee beans.  If the standard world wide was the Euro (which is worth $1.20 US dollars), and Brazil asked for 100 Euros instead, we would be paying $120 instead of $100 for coffee beans.


An easer way to look at this is it is very expensive to buy souvenirs in England and very inexpensive to buy souvenirs Canada.


If we don't influence oil prices in the Middle East, but China and Europe did, and we had to buy oil in "Yen" or Euro-dollars, we would be paying more money.  Some experts claim that paying for oil in the equivalent of Yen or Euros would put us in a very bad predicament and would make it hard for us to pay for oil and other things to feed and defend ourselves as well as we do.  Hence the latest drive for us to find other sources of power. 


Anyone have any thoughts or feelings about this. I'm not showing support or non-support for what we are doing. I am just looking for a logical reason why Bush would keep us there.  This is the only one that makes sense to me.


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