Oil nations are laughing at us
If you listen carefully, you can hear the oil producing nations like Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and others laughing hilariously at us as we pay $4 a gallon for gas.
After all, their government-owned oil companies produce 70 percent of the world's oil, and they are getting trillions of dollars from the U.S. and the world. They are awash in money as our economy stalls.
The joke is that they know that we have enough energy options with our own oil, coal, and nuclear resources that we really don't have to buy any oil from them or anyone else and our gas prices would plummet if we simply used our own resources.
How can we be naive enough to let this happen? Well, a small number of highly financed special interest groups have convinced our senators and congressmen that it is more important to protect polar bears, 2,000 acres in Alaska, etc. then it is to provide U.S. citizens access to lower gas prices.
Incredible amounts of money are contributed to our politicians to convince them to vote against the American people and for the special interest groups when it comes to using our own plentiful resources. One could take a jaundiced view and say that some of the special interest group money going to our politicians is actually coming from the oil producing countries to pump up prices, but that may just be me.
But with gas at $4 a gallon and our country perched on the edge of a recession, I am not laughing. World oil consumption now exceeds production, many oil producing countries will be producing less oil because they are not investing in new production, and China and India oil consumption is skyrocketing. A high Israeli official just announced that he can see no way that Israel will be able to avoid attacking Iran to avoid its annihilation from an Iranian nuclear weapon. The bottom line is that things are only going to worse when it comes to oil and gas prices.
Unless our politicians suddenly see the light, the situation will soon be as serious as a heart attack. And we the people will take the hit. It is time to take back the control of our own destiny before it is too late.
Randall Rossi
Grayslake