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Originally Posted by Cruisingdad
It has been insinauted, per your Bumper sticker, DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS. That is a lie. It will help no one but the oil companies. Do I begrudge them for wanting to make money? Nope. But I do bear a grudge with the obvious marketing scheme behind it that insinuates that YOU (as a consumer) will benefit out of it. You will NOT.
But of course, if the Bumper sticker said, "Help your oil company make more money, drill here," I am not sure it would have the same mass appeal.
Follow the money trail, Cam. Follow the money trail.
Actually I believe that bumper sticker CD. Any increase in the supply of oil will result in lower prices THAN THEY OTHERWISE WOULD BE if oil was scarcer. The few cents a gallon you quote represents savings from the current prices not the even higher prices there will be if this oil is not brought on the market. Furthermore...if speculation represents 25% of the current price bubble...good news on additional supply will serve to help burst that bubble...just as OPEC increasing production would. Not saying any of this will be truly meaningful...but can say that price will be even higher in the future without these supplies...and who knows how big tey actually will be?
And do not start spouting off about job creations and tax dollars. I can quote at LEAST that amount of numbers or more by nuclear plants, coal industry, solar, geothermal, and wind. Matter of fact, I could surpass them.
So what???...a job is a job and more is better!!! I don't see this point at all. You keep looking at this whole thing as a trade off...like oil is a slice of the pie that takes away from the rest of the pie. The reality is that there is no pie...only business opportunities of a diverse nature that companies will pursue to their own advantage in all areas.
- CD
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