We have quit pumping our own since we can buy it cheap again. I know of 200 land based rigs that have been stacked and 50 that have been liquidated where they sat to avoid costs of moving them. That is just between 2 pretty small drilling companies. We will keep ours in the bank, just like we allways have.

The only reason the pres. opened up the strategic reserve when prices wre high is because him and his buddies own stock.

We have Liberals and the Greenies who want us in shoe box sized automobiles with a sail or long extension cord ..

We have more Oil and coal than anyone counting trillions of barrels in Oil shale; why we are paying more than a dollar a gallon is beyond me.. You see the congress wants us to make fuel out of grain that could be food instead next step by these Communists will to make alcohol out of our seed stock just following the mental madness here.

I like my pototoes and corn in their purest form. ALCOHOL :ernaehrung004::food-smiley-009::party-smiley-048:

why not invest in how to extract that shale of it´s oil ( yes I know about it) and have people jobs ??

.... with the rate of now saving it it will renew itself....
Hey... Nazis thought about that first not Commies.
To be independent of oil and make fuel of renewal resources and coal.
No wonder they became the enemy no1 suddenly AMONG other things...

I know you have as for now again... import insted of helping the domestic.. even at these times ???

I just don´t get it.
Where´s the patriotism in that ?

Seems your legislators are hopeless...

Less than Hopeless :They caused this problem!

Huh ?? Nazis you mean like our leftist brown shirts here.

did the legislators make the citizens think of not buying american ?

IMO it was the bean counters fall we are all on our arse.

no I mean the real ones.
Germany in the 30´s who had lots of inventions to make themselves independent of oil.
That was surely and alarming threat to the oil producers then... which happened to be U.S.A and Russia at the time.

But fast forward to today... by regulating the oil to a certain affordable level the boatindustry can also prosper.
India also tried to become independent of oil especially diesel in the 50´s but oil was so cheap at the time the need just washed away. Nowadays because of the pollution in India it´s making a comeback.

http://thehindubusinessline.com/busi...s/041167mu.htm
http://cpcbenvis.nic.in/newsletter/a...el/ch30403.htm

So lets go totally oil independent in our powerboats and cars inb the future...
Do that and the market will be there.

Yes by the crazy laws they passed .