On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:13:30 -0500, Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> "Giusi" > wrote:
>>
>> Cue hysterical laughter...
>>
>> that's not only a Socialist take it's like incredibly naive and lacks
>> understanding of a free market. US oil IS a commodity. It is bought and
>> sold on the world market to who will pay. If you make it unavailable on the
>> free market, then the rest of the world may decide to keep their oil from
>> the US market. Since the US market is the most wasteful and greedy of all,
>> that would leave the US with only Alaskan and Texan and Gulf of Mexico oil,
>> pretty much.
>> Better turn everything off, Om, because your solution could flip the switch
>> for the entire country. You think "What's mine is mine and what's yours is
>> mine also."
>
> Babe, all I know is that right now, the cost of energy is hurting and
> even killing a lot of people.
>
> There has to be a way to fix that.
>
> The needs of our nation, our tax payers have to come first.
> The damn Dem's are living in fields of unicorns and have not really
> shown me anything that will help soonest.

drilling for more oil might help in ten years, *maybe*. what about thirty
years after that, when *everyone* runs out of oil?

blake