Common Sense

I have been wondering just how much oil we import into the United States.  Tonight I was shocked to hear that this figure is 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.  Do you comprehend what that means?  Let’s see….with the price of oil per barrel at $70.00 times 1.2 million barrels per day, we are spending $84,000,000.00 per DAY!  Do you hear me?  This is 365 days per year or $30,660,000,000.00 annually if I am doing the math correctly.  I can’t even comprehend wealth of this magnitude and we are sending this amount to countries hostile to America every damned year! Are we insane?  The wealth of the world is flowing to Islamic nations and we wonder what the future looks like.  Use your imagination.  I don’t like the vision that comes to mind.

It is time to become energy independent and NOW!  It is time we spoke up and told the environmentalist and tree huggers to shut the fuck up and drill for our own oil.   It is time we told our politicians to take care of America first and stop taking Mid East lobby money.  The Middle East holds the rest of the world hostage, but why us when we have our own oil?  America has enough oil reserve to supply our needs and our friends, and with an exportable supply of oil, America will have many new friends as well.  Imagine how much influence America would have if we became the world supplier of oil.  Imagine also how the price of gas at home would drop.

Any reasonable person knows that alternative fuels will come in time, the sooner the better, but in the interim do we have to bankrupt our own country?  Let’s keep our wealth in America and compete and make more.  Imagine the opportunities this wealth would provide us at home in the form of jobs, income, benefits, taxes, etc.

Can we get mad and do something about it?  Will you?  Do we dare wait on our politicians to solve these problems when they seem only interested in patrician politics and being re-elected?  We can start in our own state.  One thing we can do is by-pass the politicians and push for a state referendum to drill oil, build refineries, alternative fuel development.  Just imagine how wealthy your state would be if you were the first to develop hydrogen fuel. 

Think about it and get pissed like I am.  Call your local radio talk shows, write letters to the editor, talk to your representative, tell your friends and get a movement going in your community.  People are just waiting to get involved.  They just need a direction.  The vast silent majority needs to speak up before it is too late.  Maybe it is already.

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