Yes, we can.

[Sub la Goon]

What I don't get is that the same people who defend the oil companies while they rape us are the same people who defend the current administration for their needless wars, runaway expenditures, and criminal proclivities.

Is it really a free market when huge oil companies get tax breaks and hide behind offshore shelters? When car makers and buyers get government incentives for making/buying trucks and SUV's while electric vehicles are taken off the roads?

I don't trust the accounting we are being fed any more than I trust Jeffrey Skilling to do my taxes.

And the answer we are given is to drill more. Drill locally. So the oil companies get more oil - that they can sell to us. Places like Venezuela have nationalized their oil, so they pay less for it. Any oil we produce would go into the international pool and probably not amount to a huge difference.

If we get an administration that is not made up of oil flunkies and focuses on energy independence, maybe we could get somewhere. Going on a path that eventually leads to being oil-free would probably drop the speculative price immediately too.