# The "Oil Prices" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-oil-prices-thread/44739 "2008-03-10T10:44:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-oil-prices-thread/44739/16 "2008-03-10T11:04:22Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Sure, except that if we packed up and left tomorrow we’d be right back there in 5 years spending even more to clean up the mess. And the instability caused by the even increasing fighting during that 5 years would drive oil prices up even more. That’s why I said shortsighted. It would be a quick boost that would cost more in the long term, just like the stimulus package. We look like assholes for being there, and we look like assholes if we weren’t there. Fixing over there isn’t doing shit for us over here. Our economy is getting bleak over here. I’m worried about it, as well as everyone else. 5 more years over there then we can get involved with another country for 5-10 years. When does it end? I’m glad Iraq will be a great tourist attraction in 5 years if we want to visit. My opinions and viewpoints may not reflects others. But as you can possibly tell, I’m not for the war (anymore), but am for the soldiers. And I don’t want to pay $4.00 a gallon to be able to drive my car when I was paying $2.xx a gallon just last year. Cost of living is increasing at a very rapid pace lately. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-oil-prices-thread/44739)._