[Ouderkirk]

IN the end it may be better to use the oil from the middle east first. When it’s gone... they are back to eating sand. We have plenty of oil reserves in the continental US, offshore and in Alaska. If we use them up first...we’re dead.

[FReepaholic]

You can say that again.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Well, if you believe there is a finite amount of oil, you may be right but what if the theory that the earth replenishes oil is the correct one?

[Rudder]

IN the end it may be better to use the oil from the middle east first. When it’s gone... they are back to eating sand. We have plenty of oil reserves in the continental US, offshore and in Alaska. If we use them up first...we’re dead.

In my part of the woods where there has been oil and gas drilling for as long as I can remember, those in the oil business all tell me that is the unspoken wisdom from Washington.