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**Bondjrno** · 06-23-2011, 07:38 PM

What species became extinct because of the Gulf spill?

Those who don't want us using our own resources are those who are far to comfortable with us being dependent on other countries. They don't want the United States to be truly independent.

We should drill for oil here. When (and it will be a case of "when" as opposed to "if") we find it, our bargaining power becomes far more strong with governments of oil producing countries. We can then say "Lower your prices, or we'll just get our own, and you know we have it".

We could fortify our bargaining position and, at the same time, get lower prices on oil. Sadly, though, libs don't want to see either...

There isn't enough oil here to make much of a difference, we just had a huge discovery talked about in these forums, there was enough oil to last us a couple of weeks, that's a huge amount of oil, but we burn a lot of oil.
Now if we reduce our use of oil, down to what we actually produce, we are independent, if we had kept the energy independence programs that Carter put in place, we would be using significantly less oil, and we would be producing energy efficient products that would be in demand.
But we didn't do that.

The only way to make a dent in our dependence is to use less.
Which is a lot easier than producing more.

06-23-2011, 07:38 PM	#19
Bondjrno Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 354 Senior Member	What species became extinct because of the Gulf spill? Those who don't want us using our own resources are those who are far to comfortable with us being dependent on other countries. They don't want the United States to be truly independent. We should drill for oil here. When (and it will be a case of "when" as opposed to "if") we find it, our bargaining power becomes far more strong with governments of oil producing countries. We can then say "Lower your prices, or we'll just get our own, and you know we have it". We could fortify our bargaining position and, at the same time, get lower prices on oil. Sadly, though, libs don't want to see either... There isn't enough oil here to make much of a difference, we just had a huge discovery talked about in these forums, there was enough oil to last us a couple of weeks, that's a huge amount of oil, but we burn a lot of oil. Now if we reduce our use of oil, down to what we actually produce, we are independent, if we had kept the energy independence programs that Carter put in place, we would be using significantly less oil, and we would be producing energy efficient products that would be in demand. But we didn't do that. The only way to make a dent in our dependence is to use less. Which is a lot easier than producing more.
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