every chance i get,
i tell democraps that their party
won’t permit drilling of oil or gas in the u.s.
Rush hits the nail on the head—as usual. The Democrats’ refusal to allow for our production and refining of oil is criminal. All Republican candidates need to be beating up on the RATs big time over this issue. This is a winning issue for Republicans.
This has to be the most maddening policy issue. Even the republican Congress wouldn’t permit drilling in a God forsaken wasteland at the top of the world, based on environmental concerns when there is no credible environmental risk. Just the word “environment” has stopped us cold, despite the enormous economic and nat’l security impacts.
Personally I don’t want Congress drilling for oil. They are incapable of doing their job as Congress much less drilling for oil.
Why aren’t we pumping oil out of the ground with our current wells?
I’m all for drilling our own oil.
But what I’ve been angry about lately is even when we drill our own oil, the states where the oil is tax the crap out of it to where it about defeats the purpose, in a redistribution-of-wealth kind of way. Alaska just passed a 25% tax on the oil drill there.
Maybe we need to invoke the Interstate Commerce Clause to stop this interstate theivery.
Because they are being paid not to.
That, and they are heavily invested in oil.
If we drilled in America (significantly), wouldn’t we also have to decide whether to restrict the consumption to America, or not? And would this decision be based on the market value of the oil, or on the political matter of energy independence? What if the oil companies didn’t want to restrict themselves to domestic sales?
One good (bad) Dem president and we’re looking at nationalization. :(
Because we're using up their cheap oil first - and saving our more expensive oil for a real crisis.
AKA the CPUSA! Sounds like a legit PLAN (cough.. conspiracy.... cough RICO la)... to bankrupt and overthrow our republic!
Do any DOJ people ever read anymore?
I’ve been wondering the same question. I’m tired of paying the Saudis $3.20 a gallon. We need to drill within our own borders to decrease some of that reliance on foreign oil.
weak kneed sissies is all we have in congress, with the exeption of a few.
Oh for a home solar power station and electric or plug in hybrid car.
Answer: The Dems sold their souls to the environmentalist movement.
So enjoy your high energy prices...
They won’t allow domestic oil drilling because it looks bad on Republicans because they claim Republicans and Big Oil are inseparable.
Because the Democrat Party wants the U.S. to become a third world enity with them in power.[i.e.]With tha masses of the people, we stopped being Citizens a long time ago, starving and the leaders living in luxury such as some Nations in Africa. And the Republican Party does not have the guts or the will to defy them.
This is a National Security issue.
Germany’s ability to make war was severely hampered because the Allies bombed oil fields and refineries, reducing their fuel supply for their war machine.
The same could and IMHO will happen to us.
It take years to get an oil field producing. What do we do in the meantime?
But, let’s say our oil co.s drill in Anwr and coastal fields. That oil will likely end up in the World oil supply. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and others will cut production enough to keep supplies tight and prices up.
Several times in the recent past S.A. has cut prices just enough to make producers rethink the economics of expending money on bumping up production.( this an observation)
IMHO we should drill, maybe even assisting producers with funds to do so. Have the equipment and machinery ready to produce, then cap the wells.
Have everything in place to ‘go it alone’ if necessary.
Some sort of agreement, law, edict, or whatever stating that production of these wells is for domestic use only.
Burn up Saudi’s oil while available.
Our dependence on Saudi oil taints our M.E. foreign policies severely, and one day, sooner rather than later our oil supply is going to be cut off, or reduced to a trickle.
Our ‘friends’ the Saudis remind me of a saying on the old program Dragnet.
“They will slap you on the back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other.
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Oil companies are idiots in the PR game!! Instead of showing how countries like Brazil are thrilled with finding oil and how many jobs can be created finding oil offshore or on Federal -our land - the oild companies run 1950 happy is the world because we have oil commmericals. They never point the finger at all the drilling bans that RUN UP our cost of oil. They, as American companies, have the ability and the right to tell the uneducated the truth about the COST of doing nothing by the DO NOTHING people who hate all things made from oil.
Any Democrat who complains about the price of oil needs to know it’s THEIR party who is keeping it high by not allowing us to drill our own.
This could become another “amnesty-for-illegals” issue if we want to save our country. Talk radio could galvanize us to call our representatives. I think we are ready.