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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by totalZero on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:57PM (#26095355)
That is a general defense of the form of the statement, but not a defense of the statement itself.

The dollar is not the largest cause of perpetual US entanglement in the Middle East. Oil dependency, on the other hand, may be.

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by njarboe on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:56PM (#26095971)
Amazingly, due to fracking mostly in west Texas, the US is now a net oil producer. We should really change our Mid-East foreign policy to reflect that fact.
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