[maica]

There is no reason to restrict the development of our domestic oil production other than some liberal extremists who have a problem with the car and the freedom it represents.

Just one nugget from your excellent essay.

We can challenge our so-called liberal friends with the question: what do you have against freedom? That may be, and I accentuate "may", the way to open their minds to the possibility that government by decree and regulation is taking away our freedom to an extraordinary degree.

[rodguy911]

Probably one of the biggest outrages is that since we don't have the Keystone pipeline we can't process the million barrels per day it would produce.

Instead, we process heavy crude form Venezuela a confirmed enemy of the US with Iranian missiles pointed toward us. Too bad this story can't get out a little bit better than it has.