Who of u believe that the government should demand lowwer prices on oil imports in us,due to the us?

Would n t it be fair if the us government could tell all these countries that it helps to send more oil at a cheaper rate.since the us helps all these countries and they owe the us a lot of money.So why not pay it back in oil.Who of u believe that the government should demand lowwer prices on oil imports in us,due to the us?
Another simplistic idea by another know nothing. We need to tell these so called enviromentalists to shove it and start drilling for oil right here in the USA and offshore. China has rigs right off of Cuba. Countries don't set the price of oil the market does.Who of u believe that the government should demand lowwer prices on oil imports in us,due to the us?
Paying their debt in oil would be fine, but they would much rather not pay their debt at all, sell the oil on the open market to the highest bidder, and call us names from the sidelines. It's an international game.





Personally, I think we should discontinue our aid to any country who aids and abets our enemies or those who profess to be our enemies, regardless of the plight of their people. The regular folks in those countries never get the aid anyway - it gets shanghaied by those in power and never makes it down to the really needy - the ones whose pictures we see on the news, so we're not doing them any good anyway.
Why should they. As they say what's in it for them.





Furthermore, the situation is quite a bit more perverted than that, its state on state terrorism, by the very definition.





Saudi Arabia and many of the other major producers don't really respond to much of anything we have to say about price since their new best friends China and India have come up. While both markets together are about the size of the US market, to say nothing of the EU or the Rest of the World, the US is one of a chorus of nations whom use more oil than they produce.





Even former producer nations in OPEC like Indonesia now use more than THEY produce.





Maybe 10 years ago we could pick up the phone grumble a little bit and the price would go down. That's a fond memory, but we're never be able to do that - probably again.





The reason is that every oil producer (at 120+ dollars a barrel) is producing as FAST and as hard as they can to get oil to market, the problem is, we're more or less out of the stuff, when it comes to the easy oil.





They'll keep trying and that's nice, but the Earth was / is apparently capable of producing and delivering about 85 million barrels per day, in available resources. Since the demand is something approaching 120million barrels per day, you can see where there is a small problem with supply and demand.





We could drill everywhere Alaska, New Jersey swamps, Wisconsin lakes, where-ever you think there might be oil , but that won't really add too much to the supply side.





Time to suck it up and get efficient, like the rest of the industrialized world did 40 years ago.
HAHAHA! funniest thing i have heard in a long time, well not that long, and if your serious then its not that funny.





Im not sure you know this but the rest of the world dont see the US as a friendly helper that we owe favours to.





Unfortunately, what your proposing isnt a million miles away from US foreign policy. Quote:





''Would n t it be fair if the us ****government could tell**** all these countries that it helps to send more oil at a cheaper rate';
???? What planet do you live on? No one in OPEC owes us any money... Oil will sell for what world markets will pay... we aren't the only country on this planet that uses oil....


The solution would be to drill for oil in ANWR, off shore in the Gulf, Atlantic, and Pacific... Oil shale out west, other lower 48 states that have oil reserves, *AND* coal to oil plants as well as new refineries....


Those are *REAL* solutions... While we are doing that we can also invest in alternative energy sources to use also....
I agree. But is a bad thing to make Iraq pay us back anything when they didn't ask us to invade their borders in the first place. I think it is the other way around. We owe Iraq a huge apology for all of the thousands of innocent men, women, and children we have blown up over there.
This is why I'm dead set against foreign aid. You can't buy your friends and you can't bribe your enemies. The US tries to ask for help and those countries will laugh it off. Hostile leaders like Hugo Chavez and Ahmydinnerjacket of Iran will be leading cheers against the US.
The high prices are a threat to our security. Police cars are running out of gas. Fire trucks too.





Our economy IS SUFFERING!








Any other President would have forced oil corps to hold the line on prices but Bush is a traitor to America and he will be arrested.





Come on 153 days!
Maybe its about time the Government controled the price that big Oil Companies charge. It should also put a lid on CEO wages and benifits.
Huh?





What countries with oil do we help?


Saudi Arabia, Canada, Venezuela?





Iraq maybe but they need all their oil to rebuild their country and stand on their own.
Oil only carzy people use oil!!Oil gives out green house gas that will create heating.There is already a hole above artica.THE PRESIDENT SUCKS AND SO DOES THE WHOLE WORLD.HUMANS SHOULD JUST NEED TO DISAPPEAR.