In Defense of "Big Oil"

[Grumpy]

Mark, I am retired, retired and retarded I am not a share holder and am in no way connected with oil, the stock market or any of the other stuff but I have to pay the same high price for gas as everyone else. I just believe that the prices won't come down until we do something about the actual problem--the tree huggers and the enviromentalest that are preventing us from drilling for and refining oil/gas that is here within the Unted States bounries.

Unfortunately, the politicians and most American people would rather scapegoat the big oil companies than take on the enviromentalis.


Grumpy

[mhall]

You are certainly right about the tree huggers and your points on refineries are valid as well, but I still believe greed had reared it's ugly head also.

[DJD]

I just typed in California gas prices and found that within the last 48 hours gas was as high as 4.59 per gallon! Looks like it's more inline with us now (maybe cheaper?) but man can you imagine filling up with 25 gallons? Over $100 to fill up! That's sad.....

[Moose1am]

Gumpy:
Do you have any idea just how much oil we import into this country each and every day?
Do you have any idea how much oil we have in the ground within the Continental USA?

Oil Companies won't tell you as it's a big Secret. Just like **** Cheney's Energy Meetings were.

But if you can't see the light about what's going on nothing will help you.

Ask yourself this one question.

Does you pay check buy you as much today as it did 10 years ago?

Bush/Cheney has brought us this misfortune and it will only get worse not better.

We don't have that much oil left. What we have is hard and expensive to recover and we are using more and more oil ever year.

The reason we have high oil prices are many but the main reason is that we are running out of oil in the world and the world is using more and more oil.

This myth that we are not building oil refineries is just that. We have a refinery right here in IN that's expanded it's operations and will be producing more gas really soon.

But ask yourself why anyone would build a new refinery and increase the supply when they can keep the supply down and the demand up and make more profit? If they build 100 new refineries and start producing 100 times more gas the price would drop down and they would lose money. Now what good business man is going to do that? NONE! These boys are not stupid. And beside they can use the Big Corporation Controlled new media and blame in on other folks. So far they have been getting away with this for the last 7+ years.

I for one will be glad when Bush is out and a dem is in the While House. But we will need to get 60 dems in the US Senate to get this country back on track for the vast Majority of the American People.

[QUOTE=Grumpy;326519]Mark, I am retired, retired and retarded I am not a share holder and am in no way connected with oil, the stock market or any of the other stuff but I have to pay the same high price for gas as everyone else.