Oil............
 

I think the LAST thing we should ever do is tap our own supply.

Can any of you tell me why I think this way?

I'll give you a little hint;

It has nothing to do with moose habitat, or the f***ing environment.

Dave

Hold it in reserve?

Chas

Bingo.

Use up every last drop of theirs before we start drilling our own.

Dave

How will that help us? The damn government'll just put ours on the world market while we watch the rest of the world suck us dry real quiklike. It won't be reserved for ''just us''.


P.S., could we even begin to imagine the BIG war .. if the USA was the only country with oil left under its feet?

It's not the government that would do that. The government doesn't sell oil. It buys it, with the Pentagon being the largest consumer of petroleum in the world. It's the oil companies that sell it, though I grant you with Bush, Cheney and Rice in the White House it was hard to tell the difference between an oil company and the gummint.

John

The government regulates the oil companies. They tax them when they produce it, then they tax us when we buy it.

Chas

The government gives the oil companies a virtual free ride with tax breaks and the "Oil Depletion Allowance", allowing them to drill on public land. The most profitable corporations in the history of the world receiving corporate welfare! It's virtually criminal.

John

"How will that help us? The damn government'll just put ours on the world market while we watch the rest of the world suck us dry real quiklike. It won't be reserved for ''just us''."

No. We won't just give it away. That's rediculous. At that point, it becomes a huge bargaining chip. One we can use to get whatever WE want. And make lots of money while we're at it. It puts us in the "catbird seat", as they say, here in the swamp.

"P.S., could we even begin to imagine the BIG war .. if the USA was the only country with oil left under its feet?"

Yes. I can imagine that. As a matter of fact, that's the whole point. If we are sitting on the oil, our enemies run out before we do, and we win. Ask Hitler, tanks aren't much use without fuel. Neither are naval ships, or heavy bombers.

Or, we could do the short sighted, greedy and stupid thing that the oil brokers and that imbecile from Alaska want to do--------"Drill, Baby, Drill!"
That's it, piss it all away as quickly as possible, virtually assuring future dependency on people who will, no doubt, still hate us a hundred years from now.

Dave

Obama hasn't CHANGED that? ;)

Pete

Not yet, he's still working on "Total transparency in government" thing.

RC