fargingbastige's blog

You are right of course about our insane energy policies. For years I have heard politicians from all over the country saying we need to get off foreighn oil. What have they done about it?

If the goal is to become more energy independent, Mexico would only be a stop-gap measure. The bottom line is we need to be helping ourselves with our own exploration and drilling, rather than waiting on some other country to do it for us. I have not looked in to what or how much Mexico could bring to the table, but I personally thing we're in it enough with them already.

Of course there's our good ol' friend Hugo Chavez in Venezuala, too. I cannot fathom how people can and do buy oil and gas from this madman.

If we're not drilling today and next week, we're just prolonging the agony and digging ourselves in deeper into a mess that we have no hope of winning - independence from foreign oil.

We can't drill for oil but other countries can come over here and drill in our back yards (gulf coast). They drill and find oil then we still have to purchase it from them and if they were to have a disaster we'd have to clean that up as well and live with the aftermath for years to come. They'd pay a minimum fine and keep drilling and we'd keep purchasing it from them because we don't have a choice. It isn't the Republicans doing this it is the Democratic Senate doing it. People need to wake up and quit blaming everything on the President. I hate to think of what will happen if Obama wins.