let's drill mr president

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With wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the current uprisings in the Middle East, here in America when  people pull into their local gas stations they are more than shocked when they see the price of gasoline. This rise in the price of gas throughout the country causes me much consternation knowing that America has oil which could be produced and brought to market if only the administration would get about opening fields for exploration and drilling. Once this exploration began this would lower the price we pay for gas around the country.

Protagonists around Washington want to scream that regardless if drilling was begun immediately it would be ten years before this would bring the results of drilling to the pumps. Then the same voices pontificate how the cost is from the oil companies and oil speculators. They claim drilling for oil will do nothing for lowering the price at the pumps. Well they are sort of right there because oil is speculated on by betting it will rise in price. And I would say to them, of course oil is sold in futures markets people. That is the very reason the immediate drilling would effect prices because this drilling would provide oil for the future. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand this approach.

Drill and drill now and do it everywhere practical. This president should give oil companies whatever incentive  it takes to put a drill bit in the ground and start turning because the sooner this happens then the sooner prices will begin to return to the level where companies and individuals can plan their future. The cost of every item, sold in every store, in every city, in every state, will cost more because gas for transportation is added in to the cost of what we will be buying. Unless we can get back to producing more of our own energy we will forever be over the barrel in debt to nations that do not care one whit for America other than what they can use us for. For this president to stand and hold this nation under his foot with the permits is not only wrong it is death to this country by making America dependent on foreign countries and their oil.