Is this acceptable, that a madman/crank is causing every American to pay much more money on gas, food, etc.?
Why do Rightwingers support this dependency, instead of getting behind alternative energy?
When will Republicans put America first instead of the oil companies?
We're paying Americans for about 7 million barrels per day of oil. Is this acceptable?
I don't know what you are saying - please explain.
Why aren't Leftwingers behind Americans producing more oil at home? Keep our dollars here, keep our jobs here, keep the economic activity and revenues here.
That's what I call putting Americans first.
Obama and most Democrats see otherwise. Stop deepwater drilling in the Gulf, put public lands and waters off limits, spread misinformation and lies about hydraulic fracturing, propose tens of billionsof dollars in new taxes on the oil and gas industries.
Drill here. Drill now. Save jobs and money.
Because - for the umpteenth time - we consume 25% of the oil, yet only possess 2% of the reserves. We cannot drill our way to independence.
Why is this so damn hard for some people to understand?
But we CAN 'drill' our way into lower pump prices.
Our beloved speculators look at longe range presumed prices.
By merely lifting the bans, today, these same speculators would see a future increase in supply.
Thus lowering the price.
As we stand, now, we're going into a high demand summer travel season with a limited supply.
31 rigs off the coast of LA.
ONE explodes.
We shut down all 30 of the others.
Our own government inspectors go in and inspect the other 30 and give them passing grades.
Yet we STILL can't drill.WTF?!?!
Reserves??
Just a mere hint of the possibility of us tapping into it managed to stop the steep increase.
Nevermind that I hate the idea of our reserves.
It's like buying a Snickers bar for a quarter, putting it in the fridge, and then selling it back to yourself for a dollar.
We've already paid for these reserves.