Why are we paying $4 for a gallon of gas.

by: Steve
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We and our government know that the United States has more recoverable oil than the rest of the worlds known deposits combined.

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota; western South Dakota; and extreme eastern Montana
has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just Sixteen Dollars PER BARREL!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 41 years straight.

And if that is not enough, hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world with more than 2 TRILLION barrels.

This shale oil is now recoverable through new technology of drilling combined with hydrothermal extraction, not by stripping the land to get at it as some would have you believe.

We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:

8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

18-times as much oil as Iraq

21-times as much oil as Kuwait

22-times as much oil as Iran

500-times as much oil as Yemen - and it's all right here in the Western United States.

So with all this oil that can be extracted in a friendly way to the environment, why are we not doing so?

The number one reason is until now we did not have the technology to extract shale oil via drilling.

Number two is Environmental activity against Oil, stacking on piles of red tape to drill, refine and the using of oil. Closing whole areas from oil extraction. A good example is those ads by environmentalist showing the pristine Mountains of Anwr Alaska and vomiting up the doom and gloom that will happen to this scenic wonderland and the animals that live there if we open Anwr to oil extraction. The truth is far from this ad. The drilling area that would be effected is far away on the flat tundra of Anwr. And if this whole tundra area of Anwr were the floor of a Basket ball court, the area effected by drilling would fit under your credit card thrown on the floor.

In this case, they out and out lie about the area to be drilled. They ignore wildlife photos of herds of animals thriving amongst the oil equipment and buildings of Prudhoe Bay. They want you to believe that only destruction will come if Anwr is tapped for oil.

In short they know they can claim anything and scare people into acting to further governmental control over everyone before any reputable scientific study can disprove their claims.

So here we are with the biggest oil deposits in the world. Forced to pay over four dollars a gallon because we have allowed ourselves to be lead by a highly funded group of Eco-Freaks. They use any excuse to manipulate our society into a direction toward their Utopian dream no matter who gets hurt on the way.

They know it will take decades to replace a fossil fuel economy, they do not want to lessen the burden on America by tapping our own resources to get us through until alternative energy can take over. They don't care who it hurts because they believe their goals for the future justify the means.

And I would lay the deaths of US servicemen in Iraq right at the Eco-Freaks door, not George Bush's White House. If we were able to use our own resources, we would have no
need to safeguard an oil supply in someone else's back yard. Our economy is dependent on oil right now, it does not matter where it comes from. If we are not allowed to use our own, then we will need to secure a supply from somewhere else. Plain and simple.
No rocket science here.

Number Three, the oil companies and oil speculators are getting rich with the status quo. If Congress even hinted that it was going to open all areas in the United States for oil extraction, The scare would drop gas prices tomorrow, OPEC would go into a panic and drop their price. Speculators would run to pull out of Oil futures dropping the price. Oil companies would jump into drilling for fear of governmental take over of undeveloped oil options letting them out to junior companies willing to drill.

We have the largest oil deposits on EARTH. Why are we paying four dollars a gallon???

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We need to dump a good volume of our strategic oil reserves onto the market to end speculation and move OPEC to lower pricing.

We need to open dry land drilling in all areas of known reserves inside our borders first, as it is the fastest over setting up off shore drilling rigs that have to be built and towed into position. This influx of oil will ween us from foreign oil, and increase our security, sovereignty and self determination.. And most importantly give us the time to switch our energy base to alternative sources. Government needs to lead this transition from a fossil fuel economy to a diversified energy economy.

Mandate auto makers to build a percentage of cars sold in the United States as zero emissions vehicles like the GM EV1s that General Motors built then sabotaged with governmental help.

Type Certify a Nuclear Power Plant, which would greatly cut the red tape in building Nuclear plants leaving only the site needing approval. Once this design is Certified, start replacing Fossil Fuel electrical generation plants as fast as possible, which will cut green house gases.

Once Nuclear Power starts coming on line, require auto makers to increase percentage of electric vehicles made. This will cut green house gases on the highways.

Why are we paying four dollars a gallon when we could have a plan in place to make us energy independent, be environmentally friendly, and be more secure in the world and not have to send our children to secure an energy source in someone else's backyard.

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One mad Citizen fed up with a Congress that fails to secure America though energy independence.

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