Quoth Craig:
The people who are hurting me (and you for that matter) are the ones preventing oil-drilling in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico (and anywhere else in the U.S. that it’s discovered.)
Why do so-called “conservatives” insist on believing things that are manifestly false? Here’s the straight dope:When USA oil production peaked in 1970, national consumption was about 14.7 million barrels/day.US oil consumption is now about 20.6 million barrels/day.US oil production has fallen from 11.3 million barrels/day to 6.9 million barrels/day.Meanwhile, imports rose from 3.4 million bbl/day to 12.3 million bbl/day.
ANWR couldn’t compensate for the increased consumption even if US production had held at its 1970 peak. Anyone claiming that we can drill our way out of this is insane, lying, or duped by one of the former.
By the way, if we adopted the same MPG standards as Europe, we wouldn’t see any appreciable cut in usage for a decade while older cars were gradually retired.
Hogwash. Cars cover half their lifetime mileage in their first 6 years.
Guy calls himself Craig
Can’t find his a** with both hands
Dumb ideologue!
