Dylan Smith wrote:

Perhaps in a strategic sense it's best to use up all those filthy
foreigner's oil first, before using up your own? In any case, I don't
really see Canadians as being particularly evil (they are your biggest
single foreign supplier).


We are bankrupting our nation... increasing the trade deficit,
devaluing the dollar, putting people out of work and making those
"filthy foreigners" (as you call them) fabulously rich in the process.
Does that sound like a good strategic plan to you? I doesn't to me.

In any case, that's not what I was discussing; I was discussing the very
likely probability that exploiting all US oil resources would not bring
a return to the days of cheap oil like what we had back before 2002, and
they'd still be traded on the global market. The issue is that so long
as the Chinese and Indian economies keep expanding like they are doing,
turning on the US oil tap is not likely to change the long term trend in
price.


Well that is all the more reason to start developing our own oil
as a part of an overall energy plan to make us less dependent on
foreign suppliers, boost the US economy, and put the world on notice
that the United States is not a bunch of impotent dildos paralyzed
by impotent politicians beholden to special interests, desperately
hoping things will get better.

No one improves their situation without taking positive assertive
action and follow through. We should have started domestic exploration
and production several years ago and we wouldn't even be having this
discussion today. The anal argument (typical of Chuck Schumer, et. al)
is that we should drill for our own oil because ".. it would take 5
years to get it in production..) is such lame excuse to do nothing
and solve nothing. Typical of a politician.