Why We're in Iraq

Jim Hightower taps into the real reason for the US involvement in Iraq: it's about a new law requiring Iraq to open up it's oil reserves to privatization, making room the Big Oil corporations to plunder Iraq.

Oil Companies Are Using a Simple Trick to Bilk Consumers out of Billions

It's probably intuitive to most people that the gasoline in their fuel tank expands in the heat -- just like doorframes and cookware and everything else on the planet. What's probably less intuitive is that, in the United States, this physical phenomenon pumps a nearly $2 billion annual windfall out of consumers' pockets and into oil company coffers, according to numerous calculations, including a recent House of Representatives study.

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