joker_13 wrote:
well, i say we stop backing down to the eviromentlist and start drilling more in our own country amd offshore

Does anybody really think that domestic drilling will drive down gas prices? If the supply goes cheaper, the gas companies will keep their prices and pocket the profits. When gas prices were near $4/gallon last summer, I saw an oil industry expert on NBC news trying to explain that gas prices aren't the oil industry's fault. During his explaination, he was explaining how the industry needs to make some percent profit per dollar of gasoline sales. Sounds reasonable until you realize that its per dollar of sales ... not per gallon. That means that gas companies make twice the profit on $4 gasoline than they do on $2 gasoline ... which explains 2007s record oil company profits. Would they give up that profit margin for the good of the nation? The oil companies are in business to make money, and that alone, and lower cost domestic oil won't convince them to temper their prices for the good of all. The price of gasoline is greed driven ... period. No amount of government regulation will change that. So drill domestically if you want to, but it won't drive prices down.

If we could find a way to remove greed from human nature, then we would be all set too bad that would never happen