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it does seem as though the rise has slowed down

FACT: The Green River Oil Shale formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming has has very recently been determined by studies done by the US Dept. of Energy & the US Geological Survey to have the potential to hold nearly 6 TRILLION barrels of oil with 800BILLION to 2 TRILLION barrels being recoverable, as much as 2-3 times that of Saudi Arabia…
80% of Green River formation is on federal/park lands, not including American-Native tribal lands or state & other publicly owned resticted lands and is BLOKED for exploration by the liberals & moderates in Congress…
SO WE CAN’T DRILL THERE…

FACT: 0.02% of ANWR is to be used for exploration there in an area of possibly 15-30 BILLION barrels of relatively easily acessable & recoverable oil, possibly DOUBLING Alaska’s current recoverable reserves, while 99.98% will be left completely untouched. Currently Congress continues to BLOCK environmentally safe exploration & developement in ANWR…
SO, we can NOT DRILL THERE EITHER…

FACT: Currently 3/4 of ALL offshore lease blocks are OFF LIMITS to environmentally safe drilling.
These are the largest areas of potential large consentrated oil reserves…
Being that liberals & moderates in Congress continue to drasticly resrict offshore exploration, WE CAN NOT DRILL THERE EITHER…

BUT, CUBA/CHINA can drill right off the Florida Keys, possibly even tapping into some of our OFFSHORE reserves there…

FACT: 374,000 high paying AMERICAN jobs were lost in 1980s in the decline of the domestic oil industry, This happened when oil price dropped from $40 per barrel to $12 and Congress passed a drilling ban that further hampered our own domestic drilling & exploration industry…
BUT we now have an opportunity to once again replace those hundreds of thousands of high paying AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL JOBS, with increased exploration, expaneded modern refining capcity, and support industries…
We could become Energy independent and SECURE, possibly even the new “Saudi Arabia” of the world if we went after the 15-30 BILLION barrels of oil in ANWR, the 800 BILLION – 2 TRILLION barrels of oil in the Green River oil shale in the Rockie, and the potential 200-500 BILLION barrels of oil from other on shore oil shale reserves, as well as who even knows how much from expanded offshoer exploration & developement…

Increasing domestic petroleum exploration & drilling industry would help the creation of hundreds of thousands of high paying AMERICAN JOBS, while giving ENERGY SECURITY for AMERICA and possibly STABILITY for the world as a result…

BUT WE CONTINUE TO BE BLOCKED BY A POLITICALLY DRIVEN PARTICAN CONGRESS…

ITS TIME TO UTILIZE THE GOD GIVEN RESOUCRES THAT WE ARE BLESSED WITH AS A NATION…

ITS TIME TO STOP THE POLITICS AND DRILL ! ! !

Sam T. Mullins
25 years as a Petroleum Exploration Geologist,
Life long AMERICAN & PATRIOT

You say, “The fact that they did not [bring up our domestic supply potential] makes you wonder if they did in fact want to lose all along.”

Actually, nearly EVERY THING THEY DID IN OFFICE makes me wonder if they did in fact want to lose all along.

How on earth, in the attempt to elect “movement conservatives” with a principled desire for small government, we got saddled with such a bunch of pork-loving tone-deaf weak-tea unprincipled weenies, is beyond me. Admittedly, as a Georgian, I must say my own Congressional Delegation has been one of the least guilty. Perhaps I need to move someplace like Rhode Island; y’know, try to tilt the balance.

Well, all right then. Why hasn’t the GOP leadership, including the White House, made shale anywhere near as big an issue as ANWR, or that Cheney corporate welfare “energy bill”? If Congress is indeed this stupid, then the political opposition is even worse. The White House and the GOP leaders – especially back when they, you know, still controlled Congress! – should have been having press conferences on this issue every day. It is just that I am sick of hearing Sean Hannity (and similar) scream every day about how we are sitting on top of more oil than there exists in the entire Middle East in the form of shale and sand when it would have been mighty nice to hear that information 6, 8, or even 4 years ago back when the GOP had control of the agenda and the political capital and leverage to force the Democrats to take a position on it. But instead, all that was ever brought up was ANWR drilling and that stupid Cheney corporate welfare bill. This is not to say that I have anything against drilling in ANWR (I do however have a lot against corporate welfare for very profitable global conglomerates, and so should you) but it would have been nice to see Bush, Cheney, Frist, etc. dump ANWR for a fight that they could win. The fact that they did not makes you wonder if they did in fact want to lose all along. After all, you mentioned the Saudis, not me …