[utherdoul]

Fine then why don’t you buy gas from Citgo or enjoy paying 6 dollar a gallon gas prices. Frankly with the political climate energy independence is impossible they were right.

[JasonC]

They are the political climate. Their "never happen", why work with Bush, ha ha ha, let's ally with the house of Saud and give ourselves 8 figure bonuses instead, and invest nothing to keep supplies tight, was and is the political climate. Which is unbriddled treason for selfish ends, everywhere you look. Partisan ones, material ones, ideological ones.

Some are better than others. Conoco actually used high prices to look for more oil. Exxon used high prices to raise dividends, fund share repurchases, get capital to exit the industry, and pay themselves fat bonuses. Then if Dubai buys the entire American banking system, it'll be great.

The latter are not Americans, in my book. They are predatory agents of a foreign cartel, a wholly owned OPEC subsidiary, who think they never had it so good and don't give a lick what it does to the power of the United States, or whether it funds Iran and Russia. They are my enemies by their actions, and I won't lift a finger to save a hair on their heads.