[SierraWasp]

"The Democrat "No Domestic Energy Policy!""

How totally and profoundly correct your summation is!!!

[TigersEye]

Thank you. I came up with it about a month or more ago. It seemed clear to me that we're getting boxed in more and more. The heck of it is it is our own Congress, mostly Dems, that are doing the boxing in.

Now I think the Russians have put the exclamation mark on the point I was making. If you have no economic clout, and in fact are a dependent for the most fundamental commodity of all, there is nothing left to leverage your position except military aggression. As a nation that wants to use force only for defense and not for gain that puts us in a very weak position.