[Tacis]

There is something very fishy about the US and oil!! We have plenty of oil, yet we/they won't touch it. Why? There is all this Alaskan oil but why the opposition? Who has the clout to not touch Alaskan oil and keep us dependent on the perfidious Saudis?

The is plenty of oil off the coast of California. Again, who is keeping us from recovering it? And, there are immense quantities of oil off the west coast of Florida, near Tampa, in the Gulf of Mexico. Who is keeping us from recovering that?

Are the Saudis paying the US conservationists so we won't touch our oil and continue buying foreign oil? Do the US oil companies make more money by importing foreign oil and bribing the local nationals at the well head to only count every third barrell?

Why can't we get our own oil?

[dark_lord]

Because - long term, the oil is a precious resource. So it makes sense to consume the oil under the middle east today so that we here in the USA can keep our oil unused today so that it will be available tomorrow (e.g., for the next several centuries.) Note that petroleum has far more uses than just for cars and trucks.

Its a strategic resource...better to use up their resource than to use up our resource!

[alaskanfan]

There is something very fishy about the US and oil!! We have plenty of oil, yet we/they won't touch it. Why? There is all this Alaskan oil but why the opposition? Who has the clout to not touch Alaskan oil and keep us dependent on the perfidious Saudis?

As the worlds largest petrochemical consumer this is more pertinent now than ever.

Why do we continue to send our petro dollars to a region that funds terrorists that are trying to destroy us?

I believe the answer is simple. The environmentalists are trying to destroy our nation and are complicit in these terrorist attacks. I'm just not certain whether the results of their actions are deliberate.

[Alberta's Child]

The problem with U.S. oil is that it costs to much to extract it, refine it, and deliver it. Oil companies won't even think about ANWR unless oil is consistently trading at $30-$33 per barrel. Why bother drilling for oil there when you can get it from Mexico or Venezuela (or even Canada) for less than $20 per barrel?

[KSCITYBOY]

It would be interesting to see how much money gets funnelled from Arab countries to eco groups in the US.

[SauronOfMordor]

Are the Saudis paying the US conservationists so we won't touch our oil and continue buying foreign oil?

Consider the number of billions that OPEC oil makes for the OPEC countries. Consider that it would only take a few million to fully fund all the environmental groups. If you were a Saudi oil minister, would spending 1/10,000 of your oil revenue on US environmental groups strike you as a good investment?

[Black Agnes]

Do the Opekker Princes donate to the wacky lefty greens? I think they do. What *other* country with oil reserves is prevented by idiot wacky greens from developing them...I can't think of one. We're the only country with significant oil reserves that abstains from making them of use for its citizens...

[Grampa Dave]

The reason we can't touch our oil and have become more dependent on Opecker oil the past two decades is the illegal power of the Watermelon Green Jihadists like Club Sierra!

Makes one wonder if the same people who bought out Jimmy Carter could have bought out Club Sierra and other Watermelon Green Jihadists who work 24/7 to make us more dependent on Opecker Oil?

[Eva]

Part of the reason is that we have no totally domestic oil companies. Our oil companies have a vested interest in maintaining our dependence on foreign oil.

[topher]

Fact: The truth is that the latest U.S. Geological Survey estimates are that the entire "1002 Area" contains up to16 billion barrels of recoverable oil. If found, this oil could replace all of our imports from Saudi Arabia for more than 30 years!

Current US reserves are only 29 Billion Barrels, so this might increase the oil reserves by 50%.