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Its funny that you use gasoline as your example. Assume you don't realize this but we pay nowhere near the actual cost gasoline at the pump. We pay the rest through our taxes (and our children's taxes, in the form of deficit spending) for our various diplomatic and military adventures around the world aimed at securing access to oil.
Dan, we're on the same page. Again another example of "government" strategy. Put up regulatory barriers to domestic exploration and production with the result that we are forced to depend on foreign oil. I believe the Democrats are the champions of that approach - along with universal health care and water authorities.
I wouldn't say we're entirely on the same page. You persistently ignore that even if fully developed and fully operational, US domestic oil reserves would only slightly mitigate our dependence on foreign oil. The only way to significantly decrease our dependence on foreign oil is to significantly decrease our dependency on oil itself. The US does not have even the potential to supply more than about 30% of even our current oil usage and the new offshore/ANWAR sources that the GOP is using as a red herring only account for about 2% of that. Why do you refuse to respond to this fact?
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