Does the US drilling for oil domestically remind you of a junky making heroin at home?

Because that would solve the addiction, right?Does the US drilling for oil domestically remind you of a junky making heroin at home?
In pure economic terms it might make short-term sense, but there is much, much more at stake here than mere economics.





EDIT: My brother- The Politics section is home to Sour Grapes Republicans, haven't you figured that out yet? They are the bitterest, most pathetically scornful group of political rejects on the net.Does the US drilling for oil domestically remind you of a junky making heroin at home?
No, there is no correlation.
Actually it kind of does. For years we've know that the supply could run out, but no one has done much about it until recently. I think we have the mentality of lets play with and use up everyone else's toys before we touch our own.
No, reminds me of eating the food in your own fridge before going to your enemies and buying it from them at a higher cost.








You can call food addiction, but its just something we need to keep industry and our personal lives moving. Not inherintly evil, only those who sell it to us like our enemies in the middle east.








@ Philip above me, LOLOLO. exactly. Its retarded for us not to use our own ebcause environmentalists say its not nice, but say its okay to do it in other disadvantaged countries.
It鈥檚 time for a history lesson. Check out the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY created during the Carter Administration on August 4th 1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.





32 years later their budget is over $23 billion a year, they have over 16,000 employees and just look how much good they have done.





And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, health care %26amp; the Auto Industry over to government?





God Help US!
Ya,and spending US dollars over seas to buy foreign heroin makes it all better.
No, it reminds me of hardworking people doing an honest days work in a high-paying, non-union job. And people making an honest profit from their assets and resources in the form royalties and investment.
No,and I hope you end up wiping your butt with recycled cardboard.
I interpreted this as us getting most of our oil from foreign nations,and not much being here in America.This is true,and I guess it could be that way for heroin too.The richest deposits of known oil exist in the Middle East,and this is an area we are heavily in debt too.Countries that are not very friendly to us.The sign of the times my friend,believe in your faith.
And your solution is?? Windmills and Solar?? LOL!! Wipe out every Bird in America with a Windmill,and cover every inch with a Solar Panel,and you might get 50% of the power we would need without Oil.





Too bad all the real solutions are fought tooth and nail by Leftist tools like Comrade Obama,Nazi Pelosi,etc.





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No. It would be like all farmers being banned from farming and forcing us to import all our food.





From Iran and Venezuela.
It'd be a nice analogy if it made any sense.





First of all, it's pretty obvious that this country--this entire world--is incapable of just flipping a switch and ending oil usage. In many instances, it will require updates at a minimum to current equipment and an all out overhaul to accommodate others. You do understand that oil isn't just going to gasoline, right? That it's used in textiles and manufacturing and is an ingredient in just about everything you touch from day to day?





So, until we can get to the point of ';flipping the switch';, it doesn't make sense to you to end the dependence now, because not only will it allow us to operate independently of nations that would rather see our demise than our success, but it will also soften the blow to these oil producing countries? If we ';flipped the switch';, most of those countries would erupt into civil unrest, seeing as how the majority of them--regardless of their oil revenues--can never seem to make it to first world status, and our absolute withdrawal from their revenue stream as the world's top income earner and producer would be catastrophic.





I'm sure you didn't think of that though.





You're welcome.
Ahhh...Another lefty who has no clue how vital oil is to our economy. Keep your head deep in the sand pal.