KING FAUD SPEAKS "I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993 
Lefties have often complained that we “don’t pay the full price of oil”, but they are never honest. Their complaint is only a means to an end.
But if we levied an import tariff on oil and refined products, and at the same time allowed development of domestic resources including coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids conversion facilities, we would greatly reduce the amount of money we are sending to our Muslim enemies and it would result in more domestic jobs. If this was done in an orderly manner, the price of fuels would not rise by very much if any. I make that statement because the world price of oil is already above the break-even price for coal-to-liquids conversion.
A moment’s reflection (without any documentation, but with a little knowledge of geology and geopolotics) indicates that the west has made an agreement with the Middle Easters governments that the West will put up with anything that they do, if they supply the oil needed by the West.
The West appears to be incapable of drilling for oil itself and reducing that dependency and great flow of money to hostile regimes. May God have mercy on our children.
American gasoline is cheap at the pump
***First few words of the article — WTF? Gasoline is cheap at the pump?
Time to investigate better sources of energy. How’s that search for hot fusion going? $250B spent so far, maybe 100MJoules of energy produced. Contrast that with the alternative.
It’s beyond oil. If foreign governments had to maintain their own navies to protect their shippers from pirates, costs would have to higher. Our NATO agreement allowed Europe to shirk its defense responsibilities and to redirect erstwhile defense spending toward socialist programs, knowing they would be protected by the US taxpayer. The US should consider making it plain to the world that our defense umbrella comes with monetary strings attached.
Say what?
Text of a sticker I place on the pump every time I get gas: