Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Oil As Strategic Weapon

So, the Saudi's are increasing oil production, causing a drop in price, presumably to squeeze their current enemy #1, the Iranians. Says Allah:
Someday that mullah mushroom cloud’s going to spout over Manhattan, but I promise you this, my friends: by the time it does, gas will be at 35 cents a gallon.

Ha, ha. But I've always wondered why we can't do this. Oil prices would drop if we just started looking for oil off our coasts. We wouldn't even have to actually drill. Of course, neither environmentalists nor oil companies want to see low prices. But couldn't they just suck it up so we stop pumping our money directly into the pockets of our enemy?

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