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All true enough. Increased domestic output AND refining capacity would lower domestic prices. Getting it out of the ground is great but until we can pour crude into a gas tank it won't much matter. That we are sending oil overseas to be refined is retarded.

Every president since Nixon has promised energy independence, and none have delivered. It's a sexy thing to say on the campaign trail and nobody ever follows through.

No, it won't.

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Yes it will do some research. All developed oilfields that we can get to will be running dry. I'm not saying that the planet will be completely tapped. There will be plenty left after this happens, but getting to it will be the problem. Maybe by then we will have oilfields out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Seriously, absolutely ridiculous.

When you're fighting against a party whose leaders declare that their #1 goal is to make you a one-term president, you won't get any cooperation whatsoever. To lay all of the blame for the inability of the parties to compromise on Obama is so far beyond wrong that it hardly bears mentioning.

Hell, you have GOP leaders like Darrell Issa saying things like "this is not a time for compromise." As a president, what do you do there? If you act unilaterally, as in the case of the executive order relating to the DREAM Act, you're called a tyrant. If you try to negotiate through traditional channels, you're opposed regardless of the merits or validity of your proposals. As a result, you end up with the type of deadlock we saw in Obama's 1st term.

On top of that, the sequester is hardly Obama's baby. The only reason Obama was forced to consider the idea of the sequester is because of the lunatic fringe taking the debt ceiling hostage. That crisis was just another example of the obstructionism Obama has been fighting against since he was elected. No other president has had to deal with that amount of BS.

Finally, even GOP darlings like Paul Ryan have said that they've fought for legislation like the sequester for years - but now, they're backpedaling and attempting to use its negative effects to slam Obama. I would hope that you're not so brainwashed that you just dismiss the entirety of this post, but I really, really can't emphasize how ridiculous your post was.

Ding, Ding, Ding... We have a winner ! You are correct cockfool, There is no shortage of crude in this country whether it is domestic or bought on the open market. But there sure is a shortage of refineries to bring that crude to your local gas station, since no new refineries have been built in the U.S. since the 1970s. When you can control the amount of refined gasoline that is brought to the U.S. market,then you can easily control the price at the pump. I remember when the population of the country hit 200 million, and now it's over 300 million. Most of that 50% increase in population is of driving age yet the ability to increase a refined product has not changed and demand stays high. Great strategy by the oil companies and it becomes a concerted monopoly. Bastards !

No one ITT has said the real reason why gas has been trending upwards yet.

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Yes there's an existing Keystone pipeline already. Not to mention natural gas and gasoline pipelines already crossing the aquifer

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