My father worked for a oil service company & I grew up as "oil field trash", different state each school year and learning 1st hand what "oil people" are thought of.
I have lived since 1969 in the West Texas Oilfields, these proud people live in an economy that is governed by the whims of OPEC. The rest of the United States, by liberal media & tv, thinking we are all JR Ewing.
We have lost so many experienced oil "hands" and most have suffered by losing jobs & savings.
The rest of America needs to realize that we cannot allow our energy to be at the mercy of any foreign cartel.
We have alot of oil in America. That oil is taxed so much and profits are so low, there is very little incentive to compete with the cheap foreign oil.
then perhaps you could refresh my memory...
Didn't EXXON in Q4 of 2000 make a larger profit than any other company in the history of mankind?
So what if the world's supplies of crude oil run out? If there were no oil left in the world, I'm here to tell you that within 10 years Americans would have some alternative power supplies up and running, while the Mideast would still be pounding the sand in frustration. The issue isn't oil - the issue is what kind of country do we want to have? Do we want one where every slug and snail darter is valued more than human livelihoods? Do we have a country where individual skill and work are rewarded, or where we get buried alive under ridiculous gov't regulations? If you kill American enterpreneurship and inventiveness, all the oil in the world won't help. If American creativity is rewarded while the gov't steps out of the way, we will succeed even without oil.