NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
When it comes to oil, I just can't understand why the right wing is "stuck on stupid"?
Remember BP. BP stands for "British Petroleum". That means it's a "foriegn company". America doesn't get to keep the oil found here. You can explain it and explain it and still, it's simply too complex for the right to understand. This is a capitalisitic society. We sell stuff. Keeping oil here would be "socialism".
Oil found here is put on the open market and sold to the hightest bidder. If the price falls too much, oil companies hold back until the price goes back up.
Finding oil here gets us NOTHING. Get it? Got it? Good!
How is it stuck on stupid to realize that making us dependent on foreign providers of oil is not condusive to a growth economy?
You do realize that the oil is going to be drilled there anyway. All Obama has ensured is that Americans arent the ones working on those platforms.
For someone who cares so much about jobs, you think youd stop putting people out of work. Especially at Christmas.
Are you saying that foreign oil companies are going to come into US territorial waters where we don't allow drilling and drill anyway?