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Why shouldn't they be, they've been nothing but ridiculed by people and politics. If I were them, I wouldn't give a rats behind what you or anyone else addicted to my product thought. It's easy to point a finger doug, far more difficult to find a solution in a sea of lies, all your doing is contributing to the confusion with misguided hate and animosity.
Your precious dim party is the reason for the prices that we see today, if you could research yourself through a wet kleenex you would understand that, instead we get George Soros talking points.---lame just like everyone on the left, all words and no substance.

The Outer Continental Shelf in the United States contains over 44 billion barrels of oil, and 232 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Eighty-five percent of the outer continental shelf is off limits to domestic exploration. Can I put it to you another way? Forty-four billion barrels of oil and 232 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are out there just off the coast, and 85% of it is off limits to domestic production. Yet we have this whining and moaning about dependence on foreign oil, and the resulting price increase. In the Gulf of Mexico, there is enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for another 160 years. Can you imagine that quantity? Sixty million homes for another 160 years! However, more than 85% of the coastal waters adjacent to the lower 48 states -- which extend up 200 miles from our shores -- are off limits to oil exploration. You can't get the natural gas if you don't get the oil. It's a by-product.

Let me give you some more oil data here. Again, according to the US Department of Energy, US oil production has fallen approximately 40% since 1985, while US consumption has grown more than 30%. So in real barrels, US oil production is now below five million barrels a day. It was approximately nine million barrels a day in 1985. So in 23 years -- and see, it's happened slow. The market impact here has been slow, it's been gradual, but we've cut our production in half in 25 years -- and, by the way, can I ask you a question, folks? In doing that, in those 25 years, global warming's gotten worse, has it not? And in those 25 years the planet's gotten dirtier, has it not? According to what these people say. In the 25 years that we have stopped producing oil by half, we have cut our oil production in half, in 23 years; in those same 23 years the environmentalist wackos who are behind this keep telling us how rotten things are getting, how horrible things are getting, and we're destroying the environment; the polar bears, the planet, you name it.

The oil market is so big and so complex, there's no one company or person that can manage it, not even OPEC. They can dent it, but they don't produce all of the world's oil. So if OPEC limits their production, you're going to have some countries that are not OPEC members, "A-ha, here's our chance to sell more," and they're going to pump more. There's not one person, I don't care what anybody tells you, there's not one entity that can arbitrarily control the price of oil worldwide. The speculators have a lot of impact in this on the futures market, in the commodities market, but it is what it is. You can't do anything about that. It's just there. For example, for the last year, I have been hearing about, "The dollar, the dollar is falling, this is bad, why, it's horrible, why, the dollar is going to stop becoming international currency, and look at that, Iran and some other OPEC countries are wanting the dollar to be dropped as the currency that everybody uses." Then all of a sudden outta nowhere, I think it was late last week, out of nowhere, a single story: "Experts believe the dollar has bottomed out and is now on the rebound." Really? Really? And notice how that changed everybody's mood about this. Well, the people who are directly involved in that. It did, it changed their mood, "Oh, wow, we're coming back!" and Warren Buffett went out, I think it was Buffett went out and said, "Hey, the crisis on Wall Street's over. Individuals still have some trouble ahead in the credit and the subprime problem, but Wall Street's been fixed because of the Bear Stearns b

Is that enough substance for you dingus??

More then you've came up with, maybe you should blame bush for that dinggleberry stuck in your teeth.

Idiot

Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected from you Mike Fisher. Someone who points to filling our strategic reserves during a time of war as the reason for high oil prices hasn't earned any right to claim diddly. You got that filthy mouth handed to ya.

By the way gay guy, your dancing with yourself not me, and I know why you call me sphincter, it's because that's where you like to kiss me. Well, that aint going to happen dingus.

And the only reason you feel threatened is because I'm always right, you should take the time to read the comments instead of the typical leftist response of ignoring the facts, name calling, then claiming victory. lol, I reserve my bashage after I intellectually nail you to the cross Mike Fisher.

You aren't smart enough to see a direct assault on capitalism by clouding an issue behind the environment. And you think Republicans are the problem, yeah there are some corrupt ones, but only one caught committing subversion from within. Your entire party wants to end our status in the world, why else are they claiming it as an argument.

Your a minion Mike Fisher, every stupid little comment you make wreaks of an insipid Party of Surrender mantra. You've been conditioned to hate people who take risks to provide for a population, and love government. One corrupt side of it that is. Hope to see you at the DNC, I'll be the one antagonizing 68.

So you hang back and watch to see how it all unfolds while the rest of us actually take part in it for the good of our community.

Your faithful enemy, Specter!