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Originally Posted by sailaway21
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I read it.
It is a plethora of opinions and speculation with basically NO facts. 1/2 million barrels of oil... forget that, quadruple it, will not fix the long term issues. Period. THe only thing he said that made a lick of sense was that we need to focus on other things besides oil to fix our long term dependence and he infers that oil is not a long term answer. Duh. Incidentally, good thing he was flown out by Shell (who also believes they should be investing alternative energy) and not Exxon (who vehemently refuses to believe we should do anything but use more oil and it is not an issue) or his party line would not have even included that one sensible statement.
I cannot believe you choose a totally one sided magazine (The National Review) whose writer admitedly was flown by the oil companies, to one specific location, and who selectively chooses an oppostie party's single statement, which suddenly somehow now proves that all the facts are wrong because one democratic senator said if the Saudis just pump another 1/2 million barrels a day, all of our high oil prices will be over. Whatever!!??? It is allways the Saudis fault, or Chavez, or China using too much oil. How about WE are the problem?? WE ARE THE PROBLEM. We have no energy plan because retards like this get flown out and wine'd and dine'd with the oil companies so he starts writing editorials whose sole purpose is to convince weak minded or uneducated people otherwise.
We burn between 7.6 and over 12 BILLION barrels/year. Exactly what is 500,000 barrels going to do again? Drop the price some. Yippi!
Oil is a bubble likely driven up by speculators. If your sole purpose is to reduce the price of it, and not fix the underlying issues, then by all means... drill, drill, drill. Pressure the Saudis. Threaten Venezuela. Invade Iran. Drill in everyones backyard. It will be awesome for about 2 years until we really are out.
But if somewhere in there you actually give a toot about this country's future, and not your personal pocket book, then get us off and quit making the matter worse.
For heavens sake, Sway, do some of your own research Man. Don't believe it just because the review said it was so. Go places that are not (hopefully) party affiliated or special interest affiliated and just do some basic math. Go somewhere the oil companies are NOT footing the bill. It does not add up.
Which part of 12,000,000,000-7,6000,000,000 (USA Annual Burn Rate) compared to 500,000 don't you understand?
- CD
PS What makes you think WE get the 500,000 from the Saudis?? Eh? That will just be what goes on the world market. 500,000 in the world market is really rediculous.