[ejonesie22]

1.Buy oil at market prices (while also dealing with inflation, which has been a major cause of oil's increase in relative value to the dollar). Oil has to be available to buy at market prices, and right now that market and those prices are stable because the Princes are stable. 250.00 a barrel oil, or worse, withheld oil to punish the "Great Satan" is not a good thing.

2.Drill for oil in our own territories Has not even been approved yet, and is still not certain by any means, dumb as that is. Even then it will take at least 5 years to bring on line. What do we do in the mean time, we have about 6 months to a year maybe.

3. Deal with the need to pursue alternative fuel sources. OK, that will be 10 years minimum, same question as above.

We just can't turn back the clock, flipping it like a light switch.

[Old 300]

Why not let the market decide instead of using the federal government to manage the economics of energy with a foreign policy of force, and subsidies for foreign oil interests? That would be true conservatism. What we have now is socialism for the oil industries of foreign countries.