[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Drill now and prices will start to fall immediately .

[NonValueAdded]

If it is going to take 10 years,
shouldn't we get started?

Drill here, drill now, pay less

[TLI]

Drill now and prices will start to fall immediately .

Order the uncapping of existing wells that were capped 20 - 30 years ago that were pumping just fine back then, it only takes a few weeks to get them back into production.

If a general directive to uncap the existing wells were to come from the White House today, prices would start to fall by Tuesday.

[SandRat]

The average profit, as we've noted before, is around 8 to 9 cents to the dollar. That compares with about 7 cents to the dollar for manufacturers and more than 15 cents to the dollar for computer makers. In short, oil profits aren't out of whack with the rest of industry. What doesn't get said is that while oil companies have profit margins of about 8%, about 12% of the price of a gallon of gas goes to the government in the form of taxes. When indirect taxes are included, the share is even higher. So who are the real price-gougers? From 1981 to 2006, the oil industry made $867 billion in profits. Yes, that's a lot. But over that same time, they paid total taxes of $1.2 trillion, Energy Department data show. And that doesn't include taxes of $519 billion paid to foreign countries. Please remember that the next time a politician vows to hit "Big Oil" with a windfall profits tax or some other idea. The tax won't be paid by the oil company; it will be paid by you, the consumer.

[truthguy]

What has become apparent to me from the years I've been reading about the oil/energy problem is that the Democratic Party has been obstructionist to the nth degree. They do not want to explore for oil. They do not want to drill. They do not want nuclear power. They do not want natural gas. It's almost like they want a calamity! Then it occurred to me, yes they want a calamity! They believe it will be to their advantage to create a catastrophe. They can blame it on the market, evil corporations, capitalism, etc. They will then go in with government programs to fix the problems that they are mostly responsible for creating. That has been the plan all along. More government! That is what the Democrats are all about.

[SECURE AMERICA]

DRILL HERE DRILL NOW AND KEEP DRILLING.
SPOIL THE SOCIALIST AGNEDA TO DESTROY AMERICA BY DENYING IT OIL.

[LomanBill]

Gull Island -

 

The big event in that three-year period was in 1977 when an Atlantic Richfield oil executive told him, “We have just drilled into the largest pool of oil in North America—[and] in the world!”

That pool was Gull Island. It was said that there was enough natural gas to supply America for 200 years. But to this day, “not one drop” of that oil has been released to American refineries, Williams said.

 

fact or fiction?

 

 

 

 

 

[alrea]

President Reagan, within a week of his inaugural in 1981, removed domestic controls on oil. Energy prices began tumbling almost immediately, with oil falling from $34 a barrel in early 1981 to just $11 by 1986.

pitchforks might be useful now.

[narses]

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There is a clear moral imperative to drilling now and drilling here. People are dying because of the left's policies. Act now!

[Cheetahcat]

The Oil people say ONE year in some cases.

[Publius6961]

Here is one energy myth I wish were examined by the people for whom the facts are available:

If the "Big Bad Oil Companies" suspended all dividends, all profits beyond upkeep, all maintenance and current costs of doing business, all bonuses to management, how much would that reduce the price of gasoline per gallon?

I think the answer would render all our congresscritters deaf, dumb ---- and suddenly invisible.

[Salvation]

 

 

Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.

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