The blame game is a lame game. I am so sick of watching the dog and pony show in Washington, Senators grand standing with their blustering disbelief as they skewer oil company executives for the high price of crude oil. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin was the most insipid, asking the oil execs if they knew what they are doing to the American people? He then asked them how they can live with themselves taking home all that profit when many Americans are struggling to make ends meet.
The real question should be; do members of Congress know what they are doing, and how do they sleep at night? The hearings this week are just a soap box from where the Senators can spew worthless venom at oil companies which they, members of congress, have prevented from drilling for the oil under our own land and prevented oil companies from building new refineries.
I have written about this so many times, we have abundant untapped oil reserves in ANWR and just off our shores, and we can go after it in now proven environmentally sound ways. Read here.
Members of Congress don’t need more hearings, they really do know that drilling our own is the only viable solution for today to buy us time to develop new energy sources for tomorrow. Problem is, either they don’t care or don’t have the guts to do what’s right. How do they sleep at night?
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