Thursday, December 14, 2006

Oil & Gas

Get ready for the rant zone..........


Ok. I really shouldn't complain about the price of gas in America because other countries pay much higher prices at the pump.

Now that you know I know others pay more than we do...HEREIGO!



It is completely ridiculous that the price of gas is anywhere near the prices they were this summer and are now! We should only be paying .95 per gallon, at the MOST! It's not like we don't have plenty of crude here on our own land, alot being in Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska!

If we stopped buying from OPEC and started using our own resources then alot of the foreign oil issues in the country would cease to exist! I just can't fathom how our government(who in all fairness has been doing this since its inception) can continue to patronize the countries who want to see us blown off of the face of the Earth! Pleeeze! They want to blow us up, call us corrupt AND charge us an arm & a leg for their products! Does anyone else see something wrong with this picture???

Seriously, if a local store had treated you only with bad service you would have dumped it and shopped somewhere else! It is way passed time for us to dump OPEC and start using our own resources for fuel.

Science has come A LONG WAY since we started the industrialization of America. I think that we can drill for the oil and refine our product as well as taking care not to disturb the spotted grub worm(I know that there is no such beast, but hopefully you get my point.).

Rant over.

6 Comments:

Blogger Ship Creak said...

Petrol prices over here suck. we pay nearly £1 per litre, thats $1.95. per LITRE!!!!

Mrs Ship

5:31 AM  
Blogger M said...

Yeow! That's like $4 per gallon! Ouch!

10:41 AM  
Blogger garfer said...

Our petrol is extortionate. The government levies 85% tax on every gallon sold.

I read somewhere that if Americans ditched their gas guzzling V8s and drove smaller fuel efficent cars the US would be self sufficient in fuel and could effectively ditch the Saudis.

The only problem is that the Israel, Palestine, Iran issue would continue to raise its ugly head.

5:15 PM  
Blogger M said...

Of course they would raise their ugly heads, they've been doing it since Jacob and Esau.

Really, from what the hubby tells me (he works in the oil industry) even if we still drove our big cars, we'd have enough oil. There is not a finite amount of oil. That is a myth. The Earth replenishes her supply periodically.

10:15 PM  
Blogger TamWill said...

My hubby said that the oil here in the Gulf is DIRTY and costs billions to refine...where the oil over there is very clean. I dunno ..but he hates the thought of us polluting the Alaskan reserve, because it is one of the few preserved places on this planet.

11:46 AM  
Blogger M said...

From what I understand, the West Texas oil is cleaner than the oil in Saudi. I really think that the oil we have here in our fine state would be enough to get on with.

Who knows?... Just thinking out loud.

7:02 PM  

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