NozzleRage: Attack of the Pump

**Revan** · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 134 Location: USA

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**dr wu23** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2158 Location: Indiana

Ya..well...it's not the fault of just middle eastern oil cartels. Our country has had opportunity to drill for years now contrary to what the neo-cons and the pres is saying. The oil companies are sitting on 68 milion acres of leases for drilling. That's right...68 million acres. You might ask why they haven't drilled or looked for oil there yet. Good question. When asked they either say nothing or that the oil on those lands is too hard or costly to get at. Ya ..right...wink wink.
They want to drill instead in Alaska at the nature reserve because it's easier...one assumes, yet one of the mega oil co's , Exxon Mobil perhaps, is sitting on 100 million barrels that is capped and ready to pump for over 8 years now! Why have they not opened up that well and why is no one talking about this other than a few Dems and concerned citizens?

What's going on is simply corporate greed, mostly on the right, in this country and others and no one in Congress is calling them out on it here.
God bless America.
Mad

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**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3222

Dr.Wu,you remember all the hoopla we went thru when they wanted to have that alaskan pipeline,cripes the objections seemed resonable at the time.It was feared that the pipeline would disrupt the caribou migration,as it turned out the caribous had zero problems with moving under that elevated pipeline,some said they even loved it because of its warmth,I dont know if its warm or not but the enviromentalist turned out to be wrong about the pipeline.Heres my question,is it true that once the oil started flowing the oil companies turned around and sold nearly every drop to Japan,and if thats true is it possible to require any future locating of oil to be sold to america first?

**dr wu23** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2158 Location: Indiana

AVoid · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 6

I think the reason most of our oil is exported is that its easier to get it to those foreign destinations than to the continental US. All oil drilled in the US is put on the world market and is sold at the going rate. Unfortunately, we don't get a discount on domestic oil (why? I don't know, probably because its private companies, rather than the fed, that does the drilling). Oil drilled in Alaska is probably easier to ship to Japan than down to the 48 states.

As to your question about why big oil isn't drilling on those millions of acres it already has access to: I am also waiting for a satisfactory answer; I have yet to hear one.

I agree that greed is contributing to our problems, but I disagree that it is mostly on the "right." I think greed is independent of political affiliation. Perhaps those on the right are more greedy for money, but those on the left are just as greedy for power. For example: the Clintons and Al Gore.

**Carol Nistri** · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 3222

Well maybe this will all turn out to be a blessing in disguise.Maybe an alternate source of fuel will be invented.Has anyone seen the commercial with Boone Pickens? Hes a texas oil man thats proposing we use natural gas instead.