What Are the Bush Plans for Rationing Gas and Petroleum Products?

We now know that the Bush-Cheney administration had detailed plans for the invasion of Iraq prior to 9-11 (do we?) Certainly they seemed to see 9-11 as an opportunity to invade Iraq which was a longstanding obsession. How long I don’t know but obviously the United States had been hostile to Saddam Hussein since he invaded Kuwait and perhaps before that as well. They thought they could rationalize the invasion of Iraq as part of a war on terror but this was just a non sequitor since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was no friend or collaborator with Al Qaeda.


I believe the administration has already let it be known that there are U. S. plans for some sort of aerial assault on Iran. The way the French President talks maybe the French have aerial assault plans as well!

Perhaps we should be asking about the President what he plans when an attack on Iran leads to interruptions in Persian Gulf oil for potentially various periods of time. It could be weeks or years I suppose. A rosier scenario sounds like a sort of Russian roulette drunken stupor. I blew my brains out, it sounded good at the time. Will we be abandoned like the people of New Orleans as gasoline disappears from the pumps? How will gasoline and petroleum products be apportioned among our citizens? Certainly there will be some sort of rationing. What kinds of rationing is the Bush-Cheney administration planning for?

What will the effects be on the national and world economies? How will petroleum be apportioned among nations? Will economic activity slow down or even largely grind to a halt?