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Originally Posted by sephardic-male why are we still buying oil from these terrorist nations? |
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we should drill in Alaska
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Even if we drill in Alaska, and tear up the mountains for shale oil, both of which I'm in favor of BTW, we will still be buying oil from "terrorist" nations.
I'm amazed at the ignorance I see from people on the oil issue, because it's really very simple. Oil is a global commodity, and the price is set everyday by the amount that is available vs. the amount that is being bought by everybody that day.
Did you know that most of the oil we currently get from Alaska drilling is exported to Japan and China? And it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where the oil comes from, or where it goes, because it's all part of the global oil pool. Expanding domestic U.S. production would allow us to have greater leverage in affecting the global cost of a barrel of oil. That's why the treehuggers need to shut up about ANWR, and the rich bastards who own the beachfront property in Florida and California need to get over themselves and allow offshore drilling. The "republican" governor of my home state of Ohio is part of the problem. The fucking prick has outlawed, by executive order, natural gas exploration in Lake Erie because he'd just hate for the tourists to have to pass a rig on their way out to Bass Island in their fucking yachts.
Anyway, even if the USA expands oil and gas production to its full potential, OPEC will still have a huge say in the price for a barrel, because they have a lot of the supply. That was definitely one of the motivations for taking over Iraq. Now we have a friendly gov't, that is NOT a member of OPEC, sitting on the second largest lake of oil on the planet.
That's how the oil market works. If the USA nationalized its supply, you would see a geopolitical meltdown that would be unfuckingbelievable. I'm talking world war, as non-gold based currencies, including our own, crashed along with the economies of many nations, so that option is only to be used in extreme circumstances.
In the meantime, if you don't want to support terrorist nations with your own personal money, then buy your gas, whenever possible, from these stations:
Conoco
Phillips
Sunoco
BP
Sinclair
Those companys don't buy middle-east oil. You can also get non-mideast gas from Citgo, but then you will be supporting that communist bastard in Venezuela, which I don't like to do.