Drill here, Drill now...in the ANWR, off the West Coast, off the Gulf coast, in the Dakotahs and with the oil shales in the Rocky Mountaians.
We have enough oil to see to our needs for over a hundred years...as we develop alternates and new technologies.
The Dems know this, but they do not want us self-sufficient. They want us (particularly Obama) beholden to nations who are belligerent towards us and want to keep down American initiative and ingenuity.
The GOP should hold up EVERYTHING, particularly all Liberal programs (which they should do anyway) and force the issue.
If we did, as Bush showed us in 2008, we would not have to wait ten years. The prices would start down immediately just as they did back then and kept falling as long as Bush continued with opening up American drilling. They got well below $2/gal until Obama was elected and reversed it all.
REMIND PEOPLE OF THAT GOP!
I'm confused by this. The oil isn't recovered by "us". It's recovered by private oil companies, right? And even though the oil is recovered in the US, we don't get "dibs" on it, or any special deal, do we? Doesn't that oil go out into the global market? And isn't the price set by that market?
If all of that is true, what difference does it make where the oil comes from?