On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:14:26 -0500, Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
>
>> "Omelet" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> In article >,
>>> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> A better question is just how are we going to pay for 9 trillion dollars
>>>> in
>>>> republican debt?
>>>
>>> Drill for oil in Alaska.
>>> --
>>
>> They already do. Lots of it. Millions of barrels per year. They sell it
>> all to Japan. If we want to use it, we have to buy it back from Japan or
>> the commodities market. They being those oil companies who have extraction
>> rights that include no strings attached as to who gets it. Alaska gasoline
>> is very expensive easily double what we pay now. Why do you suppose that
>> is? More drilling makes Exxon richer but does nothing to lower our national
>> debt. You seem to think we have nationalized oil companies when in fact
>> they are multi-national corporations. They are not even American companies,
>> they just incorporate here.
>>
>> Paul
>
> And that needs to be changed! It's f-ing BS that American oil gets sold
> on the commodities market! We need to use American oil in AMERICA and
> only sell off the excess.
>
> We SHOULD have nationalized oil companies!

tsk, tsk. how communistic of you.

since the u.s. consumes a *whole lot* more than it consumes, it's hard to
say where this 'excess' would come from.

blake