momoese

And others. The Bush/McCain agenda comes from a bunch of Neocons and PNAC members.

mskitty38583

this was sent to me by my dad this morning:

> Bill Phillips spent nearly 50 years in the US
> oil and gas industry; most of his career was with the
> Phillips Petroleum Company. Bill is a descendant of Frank
> Phillips. Frank Phillips, along with his brother Lee Eldas
> (L.E.) Phillips, Sr., founded the original Phillips
> Petroleum Company in 1917 in Bartlesville, OK.. Do you
> remember Phillips 66 gas stations? Phillips Petroleum
> Company merged with Conoco, Inc. in 2002 to form the
> current ConocoPhillips oil company.
>
> So, when Bill talks about oil and gas issues, I
> tend to listen - very closely. I think that you will find
> Bill's thoughts and facts very revealing, very
> compelling and very difficult to argue with.
>
> As you prepare to cast your crucial ballots
> this Fall, please think long and hard about the
> far-reaching, cumulative effects of the US political
> philosophies, policies and legislation that have
> contributed to the current and future US oil supply
> situation.
>
>
> May 28, 2008
>
> "Big Oil"
>
> Did you know that the United States does NOT
> have any big oil companies. It's true: the largest
> American oil company, Exxon Mobil, is only the 14th largest
> in the world, and is dwarfed by the really big oil
> companies--all owned by foreign governments or
> government-sponsored monopolies--that dominate the
> world's oil supply.
>
> This graph below tells the story; you can
> barely see the American oil companies as minor players on
> the right side of the chart in gray. The chart was
> presented to the House committee last week by Chevron.
>
> With 94% of the world's oil supply locked
> up by foreign governments, most of which are hostile to the
> United States , the relatively puny American oil companies
> do not have access to enough crude oil to significantly
> affect the market and help bring prices down. Thus,
> ExxonMobil, a "small" oil company, buys 90% of
> the crude oil that it refines for the U.S. market from the
> big players, i.e, mostly-hostile foreign governments. The
> price at the U.S. pump is rising because the price the big
> oil companies charge ExxonMobil and the other small
> American companies for crude oil is going up as the value
> of the American dollar goes down. They will eventually
> bleed this country into printing even more money and we
> will go into runway inflation once again as we did under
> the Carter Democratic reign.
>
> This is obviously a tough situation for the
> American consumer. The irony is that it doesn't have to
> be that way. The United States --unlike, say, France
> --actually has vast petroleum reserves. It would be
> possible for American oil companies to develop those
> reserves, play a far bigger role in international markets,
> and deliver gas at the pump to American consumers at a much
> lower price, while creating many thousands of jobs for
> Americans. This would be infinitely preferable to shipping
> endless bill
> ions of dollars to Saudi Arabia , Russia and
> Venezuela to be used in propping up their economies.
>
> So, why doesn't it happen? Because the
> Democrat Party--aided, sadly, by a handful of
> Republicans--deliberately keeps gas prices high and our
> domestic oil companies small by putting most of our
> reserves off limits to development. China is now drilling
> in the Caribbean, off Cuba but our own companies are barred
> by law from developing large oil fields off the coasts of
> Florida and California . Enormous oil-shale deposits in the
> Rocky Mountain states could go a long way toward supplying
> American consumers' needs, but the Democratic Congress
> won't allow those resources to be developed. ANWR
> contains vast petroleum reserves, but we don't know how
> vast, because Congress, not wanting the American people to
> know how badly its policies are hurting our economy, has
> made it illegal to explore and map those reserves, let
> alone develop them.
>
> In short, all Americans are paying a terrible
> price for the Democratic Party's perverse energy
> policies. I own some small interests in tiny, 4
> barrel-per-day oil wells in Wyoming . We have 14 agencies
> that have iron-hand jurisdiction over us.. If we drop any
> oil on the ground when the refinery truck comes to pick up
> oil from our holding tanks, we are fined. Yet down the road
> the state will spray thousands of gallons of used oil on a
> dirt road to control dirt. When it rains that oil runs into
> rivers and creeks. Yet a cup of oil on the ground at our
> wellhead is a $50,000 EPA fine plus additional fines from
> state regulating agencies. They treat oil as if it were
> plutonium that has the potential to leak into the
> environment. We are fined if our dirt burms are not high
> enough around a holding tank, yet the truck that picks up
> our oil runs down the road at 60 mph with no burm around
> it. People wonder why there is no more exploration in this
> country. It's because of the regulators; people who
> have lived their whole lives doing nothing but imposing
> fines on small operators like us for doing mostly nothing.
>
> So, America enjoy your $4.00 per gallon
> gasoline. Your dollar is now worth 0.62 Euro-Cents. The
> lack of American production of GNP, the massive trade
> deficit (as labor markets have moved overseas to fight
> insanely high union imposed labor costs in America ) and
> the run away printing of money (backed by nothing of value
> here in America ) has caused the dollar to become more
> worthless on the international market. And that's where
> our oil comes from. It's paid for with dollars that
> become more worthless everyday. If we had just kept par
> with the Euro we'd be paying $62 dollars per barrel for
> oil (42 gallons) or about $1.50 instead of $2.50 a gallon
> for crude oil.
>
> What the US government also does not tell you
> is that it is the leaseholder and royalty recipient of most
> oil production and receives 25% of the gross oil sales
> before we pay for electricity to lift the oil, propane to
> keep the oil-water separators from freezing in the winters.
> We pay a pumper to visit each well everyday plus we have
> equipment failures all the time. We pay for that out of our
> 75% of gross sales. The government does not share in any
> expenses to run any production well. So, if the Big Oil
> Companies are making record profits, then so is the federal
> government from it's 25% tax on every molecule of oil
> sold to a refinery in this country. Why isn't the
> government on the stand for "Record" profits?
> What you don't see is this 25% of the sales price of
> crude oil being siphoned away by the government. That money
> plus the road taxes, state taxes, etc. amounts to over $1
> per gallon of gasoline you are buying while the governments
> only admit to about 50 cents per gallon.
>
> To all you Democrats, when you go vote for your
> candidate, a blazing liberal like Barrack Hussein Obama or
> Hillary Clinton, just keep in mind that their liberal
> spending habits will further decrease the value of the
> American dollar on the world market and your gasoline costs
> will hike even higher. As they introduce more give-away
> programs, raise taxes on everyone to pay people not to
> produce or work, your dollar will continue to dwindle on
> the world market and you will be paying $10.00 per gallon
> at the next election. Cheap hydrocarbon fuel is all over.
> Enjoy! Enjoy the fruits of your decision to elect these
> folks when you are there in that voting booth and you stab
> your pin through a Democrat's name.
>
> William "Bill" Phillips

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harveyc

Thanks, mskitty. I've been undecided on ANWR because of environmental reasons, but am becoming less undecided. This tells a story of ANWR quite a bit different than what we are fed by the mainstream media! The Truth About ANWR Drilling » The Foundry

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mskitty38583

my dad sent that one to me about 3 days ago. im one of those tree huggers and animal critters lovers and i have issues with the environment too. so you are not alone in this fact. i also have something my dad sent to me the other day, but im not gonna post it here. harvey i sent it to you by pm.

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