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They still don't get it....and I don't know why

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:46 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


While I'm not sure whether the author of this article is right or wrong, it till baffles me why people keep saying drilling for "our own oil" has anything to do with being "less dependent" on othres. Our oil, along with everyone else's, is sold in one big global market where the oil comes from many countries but is not identified as coming from any ONE country. So how does producing oil in America free us from buying anyone else's oil?? And why don't people SAY this, when we hear the touting of "drilling here"?
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If you're searching for yet another reason to hate BP and distrust Washington, here it is. No, I'm not talking about the dead birds, befouled beaches, or zillions in damages inflicted on millions of Americans by the incompetents at BP (enabled by clueless federal regulators). Rather, I'm talking about the way our nation will overreact to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. That overreaction will cause us far greater damage than the disaster itself will, because we'll import more oil than we otherwise would and produce less of our own.

Our country's economic clout is already diminishing because we're importing huge amounts of capital to cover our budget and trade deficits, while exporting huge numbers of production jobs to the rest of the world. The last thing we need: increasing oil imports and becoming even more vulnerable to pricing and political pressures from oil-producing countries that aren't exactly friends of Western democratic principles -- while watching money gush out of our country to oil exporters even faster than oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

I just don't get it; nobody ever counters this stuff with "but it's not "our" oil, and we import oil from a global market where we don't know where it's coming from".

I finally heard that explained ONCE on a report on TV, but if you guys hadn't explained it to me recently, I wouldn't have known either.

Yes, we earn royalties from oil drilled in America and off our shores, but that's about money and has nothing to do with from "whom" we buy oil...

Can anyone explain this to me? It seems the logical comeback, but nobody uses it...




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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:17 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


What is crazy is that we drill for oil, sell it to someone else, then buy it back at an inflated price.

All to keep "good relations".


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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:21 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yup, it is crazy. I assume it was set up by some global (or semi-global) agreement, but it IS insane. Better countries should own the oil and pay the drilling companies the royalties or something; but then of course we WOULD be buying from our "enemies". I just wonder why this is never explained or used as a comeback to "decreasing our need for foreign oil"...?


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To our President: “Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar. Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.... oh, go fuck yourself, Mr. President” ...Raptor

To Anthony, unquestionably the most civil person on this forum: “Go fuck yourself. On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you. ...Raptor

To Frem: “You miserable piece of shit.” ...Raptor

To Niki: “My guess is it won't just be your ugly face you dislike.....Well, it's true......if you had a soul.” ...Raptor

To Kwicko:" You're the putrid slime which oozes between troll's toes, you're so low.” ...Raptor

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:41 AM

FREMDFIRMA


What's even worse Niki - is that we are bound by a Treaty, which, mind you carries the full and equal force of the Constitution itself once signed, to provide for the petroleum needs of a certain so-called-ally-who-shall-not-be-named over and above our own.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/peace%20process/guide%20to%20the%20peace%20p
rocess/memorandum%20of%20agreement%20between%20the%20governments%20of


Cliffs note version.
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4504

And here you thought it was just guns and money, neh ?

That parasite *really* needs to get off our tits.

-F

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:13 AM

DREAMTROVE


Frem,

Given as the oil doesn't actually move you know that Israel is getting it's oil from the Saudis, and everything elseisjusr money. Our govt pays tithes to Israel. A lot of orthodox Jews do that, so I miss the point ;)

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:39 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Sigh...yeah, I know...as well as the huge subsidies we pay the oil industry in tax breaks, etc. (like they don't make enough profit off us!). What a world...


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