It was the right answer then and its still the right answer.
Every billion we drill out of our own deposits is a billion we aren’t sending out of the country, and its a billion that is being spent here on American workers, paying American salaries, buying American materials and equipment, and paying into American tax bases.
We send several hundred billion a year out of the country buying fuel, and the way to turn that around is drilling and mining our own oil and oil shale deposits, and converting our coal into diesel and in so doing putting our own people to work. Not everyone is a driller? No, they aren’t. But lots of people build machinery, and tools, and lots of people build houses and cars and sell clothes and TVs. Starting pumping new billions of real investment into the economy and you’ll turn everything around.
Wind and solar farms don’t offset even a thimble-full of foreign oil. To do that you have to drill.
“Wind and solar farms don’t offset even a thimble-full of foreign oil.”
They don’t? What about the electrical generators that are oil fueled?
The kicker is, although we import a majority of our oil, less than half that comes from the Middle East. Drilling here could take a huge dent out of the goat humpers cash flow.