What really gets my goat is that the same rhetoric (30 year supply, end to opec dependency, ect.) was used to justify using taxpayer dollars to finance the Alaskan Pipedream.....I mean pipeline.
So what happened ?
The oil companies got rich by selling that oil to other countries that will pay higher prices for the oil and the taxpayers got the un-oiled shaft....again.
Could it be Deja vu all over again?
I've heard gas stations are already raising prices up to 20cents/ gal. on their existing stock. Based on futures prices and opec imaginings of 80$/ barrel prices in the future. This is gas they did not pay that premium for and they may never pay the same price as the futures price.
No gouging going on here. No one investigating either.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it.
Kinda like tax breaks for the rich and the old "trickle down theory"
If we do need to drill here, I think the oil companies that do it should be forced to keep the oil in this country and while we're at it, let's force them to keep all future oil from the pipeline in this country too.
I'll bet the oil companies will find other sources rather than having to be responsible, accountable and reciprocal to the U.S. taxpayers and consumers.
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