Would you use stolen oil?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[Hoyt]

1. No, especially if we bombed a bunch of innocent people to steal it. Christ, Trump is evil. Worse,

the white winger who put him in office would be fine with this.

[NightWatcher]

2. How would anyone know which oil is stolen?

It all ends up in the market.

[yeoman6987]

17. That's why I said yes

I'm not going to lie and say no when nobody knows for sure which oil is which. It's an impossible question to answer.

[nini]

3. How would I know?

If I knew. hell no.

I need a cave to crawl in and hide

[brooklynite]

4. ...and you'd know the oil was stolen how?

[BainsBane]

5. The fact is we have

The US has a long history of taking national resources from sovereign nations. That is the essence of the history of US involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. How would you know it's stolen? Crude is pumped and stored in tank farms until shipped...

then it's refined and held in more tank farms until shipped to ultimate users.

At each of these stages title to the oil changes, so you have maybe dozens of owners by the time you pump your gas. How do you know who stole what?

[Calculating]

7. Voting yes because we wouldn't know

The oil is all mixed together anyway. We'd all be using it, even if we didn't want to. Oil isn't like food where you can only buy "Certified fair trade oil" or whatever.

[HopeAgain]

8. Our oil is already

so tainted with the blood of our natural world, middle eastern peace, our workers and our climate that there's plenty of reason to not use so much as it is. For example, the Saudi elites steal their natural resources for the sole benefit of themselves as we speak, and commit civil rights atrocities with impunity because nobody wants to lose their oil.

By the way, it's not like fruit, oil never comes with a tag saying where it is from.

[csziggy]

16. THIS nt

[surrealAmerican]

9. You would have no way of knowing.

Unless you boycott all oil if there exists any that was stolen, you will. Would a boycott even be possible?

[yeoman6987]

18. Nope because even our products are made with oil.

[appleannie1943]

10. My next car would be electric.

[truebluegreen]

11. How does one steal oil?

It is not as if we could make a quick in-and-out raid and run off with it.

So the whole question (and Cheeto's asinine idea) is nonsensical.

The real question is "Are we willing to invade Iraq (or anywhere), wage war and stay for decades in order to control Iraq's oil?" We tried that once and it didn't work too well.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Invade a nation, subjugate the indigenous people, and steal their resources.

[Mika]

15. Pretty much all oil on the market is such. n/t

[Paladin]

19. That's just not true.

The governments of the explored countries make billions off of the exploration efforts of countries like the U.S., Great Britain, France, Italy, et al. The people in those nations see little if any of the wealth, other than the social services which may (or may not) result from it---the U.S. is one of the very few countries with a common law basis for private citizens' ownership of oil and gas underneath their properties.

The notion that we can simply invade a country and take its oil is just more of trump's ignorant fantasizing. He's got a hell of a lot to learn about the energy biz; no surprise, there.....

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Almost all of our domestic oil is stolen, having waivers for mineral rights under other's property.

[supernova]

14. Reluctantly, yes

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Because that's the most honest answer.

As others have pointed out, it's all stolen from somewhere. When any of us pull up to the gas pump, we have no idea about the origin. There is no "estate bottled" or "country of origin" label at the pump.