Neal Barkett

Oil: Supply and Demand? Hardly!

I'm truley surpised that only TheGreates... brought up NATURAL GAS!!! We know have with the new deposit discoveries(an tech to extract) in our own United States, enough natural gas to run this country for at least 100 years. Our Politicians and we as citizens should be ashamed of ourselves. We spend billions fighting terroists that are bank rolled by us buying billions of dollars on foriegn oil. We deserve what we get because we don't either care about watching our elected officials or we are just too dumb as a nation we aer too busy watching American Idle, Entertainment Tonight, or Sports. While going on hearsay when it comes to important matter. We create this viscious cycle and are doomed to fail. Yes a weak dollar is one of the main reasons for the price of oil being so high in cost. But yet we don't realize that under our own feet is the answer "CNG COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS". If we want to invest in a real stimulus plan this is the natural resouce that will more than pay back the goverment stimulus as we move forward with installing the infrastructure to get it to where it's needed and retro fitting vehicles to run on the by far,CLEANEST OF ALL THE FOSSIL FUELS (it is even 20% lower in it's emmissions of CO2).
So why don't we tap into our own natural resource? Could it be the way Washington has been run for decades know, where the big special interest call the shots because they have the money to fund the campaigns so politicians can get re-elected? It's just like the hugh profits the Banks,Insurance companies & Big oil interests at the demise of our once strong nation. "We Sit Back & let it All Be", that's right we as a nation are so divisive we will fall pray to the media, both far left and far right. We are not a united people that can have our own opinions but in the time of true decision making we do what's right for the good of our nation. No, we follow the powers to be that have their own agenda that we think that has our best interests when really we are ponds in a nation on a chest board that is not only made overseas but heading to a point where people overseas will be deciding what is the next move on the board. We have to wake up. It is time to realize that we are still 10 to 20 years away from being weaned off foreign oil. If we invest in our own natural resources we create good paying jobs, help stop the flow of money to terroist organizations, strengthen our dollar and best of all lower energy costs for ourselves and cut the costs for businesses so they can do more business by being more competitive. People wake up and walk away from the heard before we reach the cliff.