So the tree huggers and their puppets the democrats don’t want to allow more drilling off the coast. They keep arguing that it won’t help prices now and they are “trying to save the planet” (Nancy Pelosi’s quote). This just goes to show how stupid these people are.
Their false argument is that oil is so high because of speculation. What bullshit. It is high because people know the supply is far too tight and price will rise because of that. The futures markets are there for a reason, to lockin future costs of goods. It doesn’t matter that it takes 2-8 years to bring oil online. The fact that it will be here in the future means the price will come down because there will be more supply. That lowers the price now and these morons don’t get it and even worse don’t care.
Security
The issue if far bigger than just more oil in the supply system. It is a national security issue and the republicans with their horrible PR system can’t get this message across. It took an oil man from Texas to make the statement that we are sending 700 billion a year overseas. How does that strike you?? Do these morons know how many 100’s of thousands are employed due to the oil industry? Do these idiots know how much we use oil OUTSIDE of putting gas in your car? Probably not.
So how does security come into it? The 70’s taught us that being dependent on foreign oil is a bad thing. We didn’t learn that lesson hard enough though. We are more dependent now than then and by countries that are far more hostile. Seriously, if these countries stopped selling to the U.S. we would come to a crawl and chaos would take over. Not a very pretty scenario is it? It doesn’t matter if we reduce our consumption to almost nothing. We should still drill and produce.
They want to hurt you
Yep, I said it. They want you to suffer through high gas prices so you will hate the oil companies and back their decades long ‘plan’ to get off of oil. They keep arguing that it will take 8-10 years for any new drilling to have an impact. But, uh, their plan is going to take 25-30 years if they are lucky. Never mind that they don’t know how the futures markets works and that future supply would bring prices down now. Never mind that on say the west coast their are facilities in place that can bring some oil online fair sooner than they are willing to admit.
The funny thing is this could very well backfire on the democrats and in a big way, as in the chance to win the white house. In the one election cycle where democrats should be stomping all over the republicans, they aren’t. Their approval rating is far worse than the president’s and that is pretty damn shitty.
Drill More
Drill for security. Drill for lower prices. Drill so the blue collar worker can get a nice high wage job. But more importantly drill so I can keep feeding my car gasoline.
