[Gritty]

I guess we are planning to lock up our reserves so the Muslims and Chinese can eventually develop them with our slave labor.

[NewJerseyJoe]

Gritty, that’s a poignant statement — if you don’t mind, I’m going to start using that line in arguments with anti-oil idiots.

[JasonC]

No democrat will let any fossil fuel be used, because it offends their new god, sacred gaia, polluting the atmosphere with evil exhalation.

Of course, so does mankind breathing. Which they will outlaw next. When 95% of the human race has died of starvation, the "moderates" among them will consider it sufficient. By then the radicals will demand they go all the way to human extinction instead.

So why not just cut to the chase and use greens as fossil fuel, now?

[navyguy]

“I guess we are planning to lock up our reserves so the Muslims and Chinese can eventually develop them with our slave labor.”

Democrats would have no problem at all with that idea. In fact, they encourage it.