Oil Pumped From Ocean Wells IS NOT MEANT FOR USA

The "Drill, Baby, Drill!" crowd are liars. Oil that's pumped out of the Gulf of Mexico or the California coast or Alaska's North Slope is not meant for or reserved for US ccnsumption. It is sold to the highest bidder on the world markets. China gets a lot of it. This would also be true of all the offshore drilling that Obama wants to do from Florida (east and west coasts) all the way up the Atlantic seaboard to New Jersey. We'd take the environmental risk but it would do absolutely nothing to reduce the amount of oil we have to buy.

This was clearly explained during Keith Olbermann's interview with Chris Hayes of the Nation Magazine a couple of weeks ago.



For the rest of the interview, follow the link to Daily Kos.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/4/863544/-Chris-Hayes-to-Olbermann:-Our-Gulf-Oil-gets-sold-on-World-Markets

The Democrats need to say this every time anyone says we need more oil wells off our coasts. That includes when Obama says it. It's also a lie coming from him.

After all, WE'RE A NATION FIGHTING TWO WARS. Anything's legal in wartime.

That's not how the little game is played.

If it is so important to National Security, it should be nationalized.
Take the obscene profits out of the industry, and ensure safety (to the environment).

Cheers
Drifter

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I've been here for awhile, but my health is poor and I read more than I write.

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Even if the Chinese buy the gulf coast oil it will still decrease domestic oil prices.


I don't think we should "drill, baby, drill". We need a long term solution and causing further oil dependence is not the answer. Cheaper oil just makes alternatives more expensive in comparison.

Just what I was going to post, then I saw yours. Oil is Fungible. The open market for oil knows not nor cares where it came from.

They said that if they were allowed to drill, the oil would probably go to Asian markets.

But..but...the Oil Profit $$$$ go to a CORPORATION and its CEOs and its ADVERTISING BUDGET (thanks to The Supremes, they'll spend even more on advertising, you betcha) and its LOBBYING EFFORTS


and then...




it all tinkles down on us! :bounce:




Why do you hate America and its Freedumbs?


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Can't be confirmation, because I didn't need that. Fucking A.

it needs to be told again and again

thanks for that. Now I'm even more pissed.

the repukes were screaming to drill for.

They only want to help make more and more money for their benefactors....period.

EDIT:
ANWR..thank you Canuckistanian. I could not remember the name of it

This is what the execs testified before congress - I remember wathcing the hearings

in the popular vernacular.