I have to add that the policy of “use up everybody else’s oil first” was probably formed when people believed in the concept of “peak oil”. Recent discoveries, improved geological mapping, and new methods of recovery have long since put that myth to bed. It is the policies of DC that are keeping the price of gas so high. No new refineries and no leases granted have curtailed production. Plus the stalling on the Canadian pipeline.
High energy costs affect every single person in the US and every business in the US with higher prices for gasoline, food, plastics, electricity, and fewer jobs, etc.
We agree.
However, I doubt the “keep our oil in the ground for 20 years” had a thing to do with *peak oil*. It has to do with who benefits from any given policy.
Our government is owned by big money interests. They donate to both *sides*. They all sit on the same BODs. They keep us distracted with parties and elections and whatever else they can keep in the media spotlight to distract us from the political and economic realities.
When the empowered enemies of the USA strike on American soil, no one from either party will care, as long as they, themselves are either protected or perceive a personal benefit. And they really don’t give a rip about each other, either. No matter what they prate on about, they each are out for themselves, alone.
No amount of logic or truth or reality will change them. When, God forbid, some SHTF, they will be fighting among themselves over the remnants, setting up their own fiefdoms, vying to become warlords.
I am just so disgusted with it all that after a while, words just don’t convey the depth of my revulsion.