For the Democrats, it’s a classic case of, like you said -”F— the people, we have to save our own asses.” It shouldn’t come as any shock – welcome to America these days, makes me sick.

Publicity stunt or no, I think they’re doing the right thing.

“Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act expresses our national commitment to a free market economy in which competition free from private and governmental restraints leads to the best results for consumers.” http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm#file

Clearly the governmental restraint are in violation of a free market economy and is criminal negligence on the part of the liberal politicians who are the real cartel that profit in taxes more then 3 to 1 to the oil companies that actually work for their money and then have to pay taxes on top of that. So when Oil profits go up the tax revenue increase is 3 times that of the oil companies. So who do you think is the real cartel???

This criminal incompetence of the democrats and legislative politicians anti free market energy economy in allowing American companies to meet American Oil needs is in need of change and with bush opening up offshore drilling it is time that we conservatives take a page from the left wing play book and for us to us the judicial system in upholding our laws and open up drilling.

Why dose the Senate call for investigations on big oil? Because they are trying to transfer the blame off of them by placing the blame on someone else. By placing the blame on the oil companies and keep people from seeing that government is the true problem they are able to offer false hope in an effort to gain more power and money from taxes while eliminating a free market economy in our country and forcing us to send our money to unfriendly Middle Eastern countries.

Why should we drill?
1) Create more high paying jobs for Americans
2) Become energy independent and stop sending $700 billion to middle eastern countries that support terrorism
3) Invest the $700 billion in America
4) $700 billion is 6% of the yearly US economy, and investing this in America would do what to our economy? Lower inflation and strengthen the US dollar?
5) Instantly drop the price of oil because oil Speculators like me would invest in commodity producers that provide the product like Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, because this is the smart investment. When Oil Speculators transfer investments the Oil price falls on the stock market.

It’s funny that the Republicans blocked the bill proposed by the Democrats a week and a half ago that would force the oil companies to fully exploit the government lands that already have been allocated to them. Why would the Republicans do this unless their intrests were only for Big Oil, their campaign contributers?

And for the record drilling oil off shore and in ANWAR doesn’t make us more “energy independent” either. The US government isn’t doing the drilling, it’s the big corporations and all of the oil they pump gets dumped on the global market giving the US only as much oil as they choose to buy.

I hate to break this to the American public, and the delusional Republicans especially, but it doesn’t matter how much oil we drill, high oil prices are here to stay. In fact, I expect energy in general to continue growing more expensive for a few decades to come.

Also, this isn’t an “energy crisis.” This is just market forces reacting to increased demand (and increased speculation thanks to the Enron loophole courtesy of Republicans). The real energy crisis is still looming in the distance and could be quite a fiasco unless we make plans for replacing our non-renewable energy sources with renewable ones.