As Protest to the War Lets All Stop Buying and Using Oil Products. Any Up for It?

As protest to the war lets all stop buying and using oil products. Any up for it?

Good idea That would free up the oil need for Bush to give to North Korea. Yesterday he promised Korea that he (America) would give North Korea all the oil they needed to make electricity. Go big Red Go

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Why doesnu2019t Vietnam allow a military base for the USA in Cam Ranh? Isnu2019t it much easier for them to deter China agressiveness in SCS, protect its fishermen, and maybe have more successful oil production?

If you can explain why or reference a document that the US would act on Vietnam's national interests (deter China agressiveness in SCS, protect its fishermen, and maybe have more successful oil production…), I will certainly, be joining you in lobbying the Vietnamese government to change their foreign policy and security principle of 3 NO's: NO foreign troops on Vietnamese soil. No allying with one country to counter another. No military alliances with foreign powers. Bonus reference: the Philippines has a signed Mutual Defense Treaty with the US (1951)!

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Are cedar oil products safe to use on cats?

Depends, actually. IF It is a modified cedar oil mixed with hydrated silica,then it is not harmful to cats or kittens. Some animal products containing cedar oil do modify the cedar so it can besafer. Call the company who manufactures the product to make sure if it is modified with silica. There are many types of cedar and several of them are not only harmful to animals, but humans as well.For example, western red cedar is toxic to animals and humans, yet play scapes are made from it because its known to repel insects and prevent decay. And..just because something is natural does not mean it's safer than synthetic treatments. In fact, cedar oil is toxic to many animals, including cats, when ingested. If inhaled, it's an irritant and can even be deadly. My assumption is that used in the dilution that Cedarcide uses, it's not dangerous. This is the same idea with many other non-natural EPA-approved pesticides. Toxicity is observed in lab animals who are exposed to the pesticides in exponentially larger amounts than our pets would be, even with frequent application. If pure cedar oil was applied to any pet in this way, they would suffer toxicity as well. Pyrethrin is another example. It's used in some older/cheaper flea and mite products. It's natural - it comes from mums. But it's toxic to cats when ingested. Garlic would be another. Garlic can rid cats of fleas, true. But enough garlic to get rid of fleas would be toxic to the cat's liver. If you ask my opinion about using Cedarcide as opposed to Advantage, I have to tell you I would choose Advantage, myself.

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Which investment would give me a better return on my money?.........................?

There's no way to tell what the returns will be with either investments and in general I would say that there are better alternatives to both. With gold and silver, you would be betting on uncertainty. Aside from the industrial demand for gold and silver, the value is based upon wide acceptance by multiple countries and multiple economies, a currency is only as good as the government that backs it whereas the utility of gold and silver as a currency equivalent transcends political and economic borders. However it does not have an intrinsic model for increase in value as a business has so intrinsically it depreciates due to storage costs among other reasons and the increases we have seen are extrinsic due to speculation about various aspects of the economy and government policies. As with any speculation valuation, there is the potential for a correction and positive trends could merely be apparent, an artifact of herding. Natural gas is largely an unwanted byproduct of oil production and is for the most part simply flared at the well head due to the expense of a duplicate network of pipes, pumps, compressors, liquefaction plants and the associated cryogenics to bring it to market. This means two things, an increase in demand sufficient to warrant new infrastructure to bring more of the natural gas to market only results in a unit step increase in production that will dramatically increase the production available hence the price will collapse after a sufficiently large run up. The second is that it's an unwanted byproduct of oil, the cost of natural gas is essentially subsidized by that of oil, as demand and prices for oil goes up, that of natural gas is not necessarily proportional and in fact there's a component of the pricing that's inversely proportional to oil production. Yes energy demand is going up but if the proportion of use remains as they are then natural gas is not the easy win it appears to be. The introduction of the ultra low sulfur diesel has been a big boon to NG in that we meet the low sulfur requirements by diluting our high sulfur diesel with synthetic diesel from Fischer Tropsch synthesis of the syngas produced by gasification of natural gas. It's possible to gasify trash and dried sewage to make syngas and indeed that's what is done at plasma torch incinerator plants but it's cheaper to gasify NG. Investing in NG because you believe energy demand is going up is not sufficient reason to do so as the relationship is far more complicated than NG is energy. Both NG and metals are just investment options that have received a lot of uninformed discussion and speculation, this one included. I would stay away from both investment options. An investment in NG would be based upon naivety of how NG is brought to market and an investment in gold and silver would be based upon irrational fears of a low probability extreme for which the investment actually provides very little mitigation. Invest in a no load, low fee indexed mutual fund from a reputable firm like Vanguard or Fidelity and stop listening to the pundits on TV.