Congressional Democrats are showing a great deal of audacity with their questioning of Oil Executives.

The very crisis they are accusing Big-Oil of causing...they themselves caused with their votes.

Red-tape has stopped us from building new refining capacity for over 30 years, their refusal to allow domestic drilling, the slow collapse of the dollar is all the fault of the Majority in the US Congress.

The only drilling going on in this country is the Democrats drilling oil executives.

How can they talk this way when they know they caused all of this?

Answer: Because they can.

The Dems want the oil companies to work with what they have left them.

How can anyone do anything in a country were they handcuff your industry yet expect you to do miracles.

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"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste...." - Rahm Emmanuel

Yessiree, it's all those damn Dems fault we're getting ripped off at the pump! Couldn't possibly be the people who are getting obscenely rich or the two oilmen in the White House behind it...

I don't trust the oil execs as far as I can thrown them. They have all the compassion of Burmeese Generals. I watched the entire Senate hearing yesterday. They do have a small point however that if resources could be tapped in the USA the prices might come down. I would prefer to save the environment and invest that money in moving away from a petroleum based economy in North America.

How much of the ANWR oil would be sold to the Chinese? Perhaps it could help offset our trade deficit?

We can refine all day long, the price of oil is globally traded, we have little to know control over it, even if we pumped barrel after barrel out of Alaska. Again no one on the refining or ANWR side of the aisle can articulate how we get oil out of the ground without foreign investment and why that foreign investment would allow us to sell their investment at a lower price to our consumers when the global marketplace would lead to a greater return on the investment. Moreover, can anyone argue that drilling in Alaska would take less time than investing money into expanding public transportation and building railway infrastructure around the country? You want to put people with industrial skills to work, we need to outfit every major city with public transportation, people need to have a viable option for getting to work and around their cities. We have so much sprawl which means we also have room and space to build rail/bus systems that are effective. We are behind the rest of the western world on this and now we are paying for it. You can whine about refineries all day, we need something DIFFERENT, we need to use our American ingenuity and rethink our entire relationship to oil. It's possible if you're not going to be lazy.

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Bush's net income has dropped since he became President.

Bush May Have Lost Wealth During Presidency

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THIS IS REAL HOPE AND CHANGE!

The oil companies are quietly enjoying being the middleman during our energy crisis.

They aren't inherently evil, but they're also not going to pass up the opportunity to skim a bit more than usual off the top.

Expecting miracles is exacly what you're doing Mudwhistle if you think that ANWAR is the answer.

How much do you think gas prices would go down if we started drilling in ANWAR and all other prohibited areas today?

At best it's only a small relief..... it's not a solution. Personally, I'm in favor of drilling for oil everywhere that we can, but I'm under no illusion that doing that will significantly stem the tide of rising world, or even domestic, demand.

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Congratulations President-Elect Obama

This Congress is doing a lot worse than I expected.

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Public policy has dictated against drilling in ANWR far before this Congress has been in power. It's absurd to suggest that the Democratic controlled House (remember, the Senate is 49-49-2) is responsible for anti-drilling policies when a Republican-controlled Congress didn't allow it for the twelve years they had control.

Drilling in Alaska may eventually be the solution...but we're not there yet.

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What utter BS, and you are showing your lack of knowledge on the topic by posting such a post. The 5 largest oil companies have made a collective net profit in the first quarter of 2008 of 36 billion dollars. The oil companies are arguing that the only way to reduce the prices is to open up new drilling areas (ie they're targetting Alaska). All this will do is to further increase their profits, at the expense of the environment, and will have little-to-no effect on the motorist.

The price of oil is being driven by a number of factors, particularly the status of the US economy and the weak US dollar; and the almost overnight and dramatic increase in demand from China, India and other rapidly developing countries.

when we stop thinking "2 party" it starts to make more sense...

could the oil cartels have influance in american politics?...nooooooo

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Talk about BS, do you know that there is more oil in Alaska and off shore of America than the whole ME.

You libs whine about the environment but I bet you drive a car. So when you stop driving in the name of the environment then you will have a leg to stand on, until then, your nothing but mouth.

Sure, go ahead and drill there then ... you don't seem to get that it won't actually decrease the price of oil do you?

If we could export some yes it will. You dont see people in the ME paying 4 bucks gallon now do you.


When you giving up your car seeing how much you care about the environment?

Actions are louder than words.

I don't have a car. I catch public transport. Touche!