Your government at work, keeping oil prices high and us dependent on foreign oil

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Hello All, Skyrocketing fuel prices are certainly on everyone's mind. What's worse is that we are teetering on a very painful economic recession unless those fuel prices are brought back down. Congress has subpoenaed the Oil Giants several times to answer loaded questions about their record breaking profits. Yet, Congress has conveniently left out all mention of their culpability in this looming economic disaster. First, we all know that the federal gov't tacks on 18 cents per gallon of fuel purchased. Though, did you also know that the federal government is getting approximately 20% off the top by way of lease payments made from the oil companies to the federal gov't for the lease of federal lands? Second, Congress (both sides of the aisle) have been asleep at the wheel over this dependence on foreign oil, and skyrocketing price issue. How many of our legislators have been out on the campaign trail for the past year and a half, instead of doing their job??? Third, Congress has picked up the mantle of attacking future's speculators for their very real contribution to sky-rocketing oil prices. Though, they manipulatively have focused on how to restrict traders by way of punitive fines -- which serves to feed the hungry pig (Congress), while doing virtually nothing to rein in speculation! Congress is completely skirting the real issue (oil should not be traded as a commodity because it is a national security issue) in lieu of revenue generation schemes. They would rather count on future 'fines' than to eliminate the real effect that speculators have on the price of crude (remember the man who boasted that he drove oil over the $100/barrel mark so that he could tell his grandchildren that he was the one who made history?) And, now here's the ugliest 'black eye' on Congress in this matter: Nancy Pelosi, and her minions are lying through their teeth when they tell you that we won't see any benefit from drilling today for another ten years! The proof of the pudding is Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) Whose efforts from the beginning of drilling to oil in the barrel is covering a 55 day time frame!!! Moreover, North Dakota is bending over backward to help the American consumer in this fuel crisis. They approved a new pipeline system to get oil from Canada and the Dakotas to the rest of the nation. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/11/pipeline/ They've also approved the construction of the first, all new oil refinery since 1976. Yup, that's 32 years since a refinery has been built in this country! [i]"Supporters cited the once-in-a-lifetime economic opportunities the $10 billion project would bring. An average of 4,500 construction jobs would be required over four years. With the refinery up and running, Hyperion pledges to create 1,826 full-time jobs at hourly wages of between $20 and $30. "I think it would be a great opportunity for young people to stay in this area instead of leaving for other states," Kelly Hoekstra, 31, of Dakota Dunes said after casting a vote in favor of the rezoning."[/i] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030124/posts And, they've welcomed oil companies to drill on their lands, to the benefit of their own wallets, and the American People. Yet, Congress & Dem. politicians are blocking them every step of the way! They're doing so with bold-faced lies and manipulative deceptions. So, the next time you hear any Democrat politician stating that drilling now won't have an effect on the costs at the pump -- will you remember Pioneer Natural Resources, and the folks for North & South Dakota? And, will you remember the fact that sycophant politico's have been standing in the way of easing our dependence on cartel priced foreign oil?