Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Why Are We Not Drilling?

Our own USGS says we have 48 Billion Barrels of Recoverable Oil within the borders of the United States and Alaska. That's more than 180 years of future domestic oil consumption based upon our current inefficient pace. We wouldn't need to import one shiny drop of oil from foreign lands. And, What are the chances that cleaner, cost effective alternative energy sources will develop dramatically within that 180+ years?

"We need jobs," is the current mantra. Why are we not feverishly hiring, drilling, producing, refining, packaging, transporting, and selling with this birthright? You want jobs? Who is standing in the way and stubbornly encumbering us to foreign debt and eventual economic servitude? With an economy on the ropes, and unemployment rising, why are we not pursuing these domestic resources?

Who's in charge here? Or, rather, what exactly is their agenda?

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