Posted by
Dan@Minuteman1 on Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:17:19 AM
Those of you continuing to go on and on about how the high price of gas is all the fault of those evil oil companies really do need to get a grip. It’s time for a little dose of reality. The Democrats love to go on the news and use words like price gouging, excessive profits at the cost of the little guy and other nonsensical statements but it’s all just political propaganda, which our left leaning news media outlets are more than happy to perpetuate. The honest truth is that Democrats have been pushing for higher prices for years as a way to, in their words, encourage conservation and to save the environment. Well, higher prices are here and people are using less gas, so you’d think they’d be ecstatic. But there not, the reason being is that they’re upset they’re not getting a bigger piece of the action. Whereas the government would love more money to blow, the oil companies need to make money to be able to spend more to complete much needed research and development for new fuels. Gee, what makes more sense, giving money to greedy Democrats to use to buy more votes, or allowing oil companies to spend it on developing new, cleaner fuels? Sounds like a no brainer to me!
The dirty little secret here is that it’s the Democrats themselves who have created the situation we have today regarding the high cost of not only gas, but also energy in general. It’s all about supply and demand, when you have less of something it going to cost more. And because they continue to support barring any oil exploration or production on just about all government owned land we’re able to drill for less oil here at home making us more dependent on foreign oil. That very same land, together with areas off shore where oil exploration is also prohibited, is where experts believe that the U.S. has upwards of 110 billion barrels of oil. Of that amount, upwards of 20 billion barrels are in the form of proven reserves, another 30 billion barrels is undiscovered oil that could be recovered through conventional means, with still another 60 billion barrels of inferred reserves, oil shale and other unconventional sources, which can be recovered today with new, environmentally safe technology. Now I will admit even with the full exploitation of this potential oil supply this country would still not be energy independent, BUT, it would bring down prices and allow time to develop alternative fuels. Something that those evil oil companies will be needing to spend most of those excessive profits on. Just a side note here, does anyone realize that China is drilling for oil 45 miles off the Florida Keys? Just thought I’d ask.
Anyway, so you can go on blaming the oil companies until your blue in the face, and when they start making more money off a gallon of gas than the government already does I’ll be right there with you. The real culprits in this whole fiasco are the Democrats, plain and simple. The same Democrats who are against drilling for more oil, refining more oil, expanding nuclear energy so less oil is used and even against wind power if it involves building windmills that might interfere with the Kennedy’s weekend sailing. The Democrats have engineered this whole thing, so to those of you who continue to vote for them, THANKS!