Re: Black Community Is Increasingly Protective of Obama

Don Homuth wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:52:25 GMT, Is Ken Darian <cam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Don Homuth wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:26:56 GMT, Is Ken Darian <cam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there any chance DOMESTIC oil production might cost a bit more and

>>>> thus a subsidy ensures we at least have some local production?
>>> If that's the case, why do we wish to produce it at a Higher cost than
>>> it can be got elsewhere?
>> Because if we produced none at all we'd be mostly at the mercy of 
>> unfriendly nations.
> 
> But we don't produce none, 

We do not produce enough to keep ourselves going in a crisis, deal with 
reality.

> and we are Not at the mercy of unfriendly
> nations, 

Yes we are, stop lying.

 > We get the overwhelming majority of our
> awl from either domestic production and from friendly nations.

We get enough from ones that are not friendly to be of concern:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_im****ts/current/im****t.html

Crude Oil Im****ts (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
           Apr-08 Mar-08 YTD 2008
VENEZUELA 1,019  858       990

RUSSIA     106   108        77

LIBYA      85    75         68

And given the issue with terror funding and illegal immigrationand drugs 
  you can rightly question whether Saudi Arabia (#2) and Mexico (#3) are 
all that "friendly" to us geopolitically.


>>> Especially since the Cost (which I have noted previously is Real) is
>>> borne not by The Market but by the (dread) Public Sector and
>>> Taxpayers.
>>>
>>> Do you Want to be taxed for the petroleum you use?  That's how
>>> Subsidies work.
>> Do you want us to have any domestic production in time of crisis or
embargo?
> 
> Sure!  Why not?  And we Will 

If we continue to employ meaningful subsidies and not punishment like 
Barry's idiotic windfall profits scheme.

Carter used that to DOUBLE our im****ts in his short time in office and 
decimate local E&P.