Oil shoots up over $11/barrel today? We just had 2 oil men in office for 2 terms & Congress/dems fought them?

every step of the way to drill in this country. Shale, Alaska, etc. has trillions of barrels of untapped reserves!! Now what?? It gets to $150/barrel?? It's very near a crisis but too little too late!Oil shoots up over $11/barrel today? We just had 2 oil men in office for 2 terms %26amp; Congress/dems fought them?
Bill Clinton, the God of the leftist signed a bill against domestic drilling during his term in office.





Also, the leftist for 35 years have been fighting nuclear plants.





We have not built a refinery here in 30 years, yup, you guest it... the leftist.





They keep yelling ';alternative energy'; but none of these so called majority of left wing scientist can seem to, in over 40 years, come up with an alternative... Why?





Its easy for them to rant and rave and blame the Bush Administration when they refuse to look in the mirror and see who are the major contributors to the fuel ';crisis';.





Hey, Pelosi lead Congress, you have been the majority, why have you not kept your promises you made to the people when you were running for office?





Cause it was all lies, that's why.Oil shoots up over $11/barrel today? We just had 2 oil men in office for 2 terms %26amp; Congress/dems fought them?
We don;t have to goto Alaska, there is enough oil on the mainland to curb demand!!! If we industirlaized oil and allowed only Oil in the US to be sold. No export/import on any oil. Gas would be very cheap. We are conservatives on the environment who rely on Arabs to mess up there environment (for hefty price of course) to provide us with over priced oil that make royal Arabs rich!
They can drill all they want in America. They just have to adhere to environmental laws. Stop spreading that lie. Why would Big Oil risk capitol drilling when they can just import? They make more profit with imported oil and no risk. Why would they build new refineries and lower the price of gas along with their profits. Open your eyes BushBot.
don't worry once the Economy takes a crap (soon) oil will come down some.





you act as if we don't pump any oil here ? there are plenty of wells that are pumping oil out in the USA.


and that oil then goes on the GLOBAL MARKET


and is sold to the highest freaking bidder.





you people fail to remember when a barrel of oil was 10 bucks and many wells in the USA turned there pumps off. because oil was not selling enough for them to make a big profit.
Dems answer to a different crowd.
Al Gore has perpetrated the perfect lie to make millions, hasn't he?
yah, I'd like to know where you saw it was only $11 a barrel!!!


Try $140 a barrel.
First of all, it was a GOP Congress for 6 years--and you cons made a big deal out of saying the Democrats had no say in policy. So fine--it was all your doing--that's what you said.





Second, we do not have an oil shortage. We have a shortage of refinery capacity. Despite the fact tha tthe Bush administration--AND Congres (both parties) have given the oil companies exemption from environmental rules and subsides to build more refineries.





The oil companies have refused. They have not built a single new refinery in over 15 years. They have, however, bought and closed many independent refineries.





Now---here's a little bit of real world facts for you: iit DOES NOT matter how much oil you have--if you don't have enough refinery capacity you will not have enough gas.





This has resulted--and the oil companies intended--in a shortage--and they have tripled the price of gasoline. With the full cooperation of your little tin god Bush.





But don't worry--its a short-term situation. With modern technology tha tis now beginning to come online, we do not need more oil in any case. Oil--and coal--are esssentially obsolete. New enrgy socurces are cheaper and cleaner--and investing in them will create new industries, new jobs--and in the long run lower prices for consumers.





But forget trying to lay this on the Democrats. The cons wanted to run the show? Well--you got to for years. With power comes responsibility--and no one is going to let you avoid taking responsibility for your actions.
To show you how out of touch Congress is with the people we have the Warner/Lieberman bill that will instantly increase the price of all energy, as if you weren't paying enough already.





The Democrats continually refuse to allow new refineries, drill for new oil here, Coal to Liquid technology, Gas to Liquid technology, open new Nuclear operations (cleanest source of energy) or even pick a bio fuel that is viable and that everybody can live with and make it a priority... Environmentalists have run amok in this country (not just Democrats).





Ethanol is a disaster of epic proportions and yet that is our only real alternative at this moment and it does not even come close to meeting the needs of this country AND never will, its insufficient plus it puts at risk our food source. Reliable, affordable electric cars or hydrogen cars are generations into our future for the general masses but yet the environmentalists continue to fight tooth and nail to ensure that energy prices are as high as possible, not to mention food prices with the onslaught of Ethanol production.
$11? Maybe a few decades ago.





Mining for shale won't do jack for oil prices, sorry. Extracting and processing it consumes lots of energy and money, it's not worth it.





Ok my bad for misunderstanding.





Still mining for shale is far less efficient than pumping sweet light crude straight out of the ground. and that's a FACT, you can take your condescending ';better check your facts'; tone and put it someplace that's not nice.





Also, It's obvious that you think climate change is a total hoax, but what if it's not? What if the 2,000 scientists of the IPCC who agree that climate change is real and is at least being hastened by human activity is not a global conspiracy?





If we invest in all that new technology now then we will be committing ourselves to using it indefinitely, at least until it's all gone. Then 50 to 100 years from now we'll discover it's too late and we still won't have a clean renewable energy supply in place. Since we are at a point where we have to invest in new energy sources, it'd by dubiously short sighted and naive not to take the safest route possible.