The neo-con arm of the propaganda machine is now hyping the slogan, “If the government would just give blanket approval for any and all drilling in the United States, gas prices would fall.” I am beginning to wonder if every special interest group is now writing its own commercial news and paying to have it put in the mainstream.
The US is now exporting more petroleum products than it is importing. If it were the law that all oil and natural gas taken from our lands had to be sold in the United States up to the point that we are meeting our demands 100% domestically, we would be paying about a dime a gallon for the gas for our cars and 20 cents for the diesel for our tractors. This being said, the price of our food and energy would also be minute compared to what we are paying today.
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