How To Become Free From Foreign Oil - And Increase Our Nation's Security

Our economy would go into warp speed if America were to end its dependency on foreign oil and produce most, if not all of its own cheap energy. And we do not need expensive pie-in-the-sky "green energy", either.

The Bakken oil reserve in the western United States has enough oil to fill America's needs for 2,000 years! This is a fact, attested to by the U.S. government and the U.S. Geological Survey. There is enough oil at Bakken to bring the domestic price of oil down to $16 per barrel, as opposed to the current price of nearly $90 per barrel.

The ONLY reason we are not tapping this reserve is the same reason we are not tapping the huge reserves in Alaska - environmentalists who would rather destroy us all than to endanger their own warped agenda. Although environmentalists were proven wrong with the Alaska pipeline, they still insist recovery of oil will harm the habitat of wildlife. They said the pipeline would destroy the caribou herds, preventing them from migrating. In fact, the herds have proliferated.
The environmentalists are wrong, and they know it. But our politicians cave in to their powerful lobbying in order to get re-elected. We, the People need to put a stop to that and force our politicians to act in the best interests of America, not environmental special interests.

First, we need to insist the Bakken be tapped, along with the reserves in Alaska.

Second, we need to provide the oil companies with the rights to recover the oil only if they also triple or quadruple refining capacities. It is a lack of refineries more than a shortage of oil that makes gasoline so expensive.

Third, we must make it a law that as long as America depends upon even one drop of foreign oil, no American oil will be sold outside the U.S.. Only if and when America produces all its own power can oil companies put any excess on the open market.

If you understand nothing else, understand this --- any nation that does not have a ready and secure supply of energy will find themselves at the mercy of those who do. Currently, America is dependent upon both enemy nations and unstable nations for its supply of energy. And that is a recipe that assures our destruction.

If we are to survive as a nation, we absolutely must secure our own energy sources right here in the U.S. - then guard them as though they were nuclear weapons, because our enemies would stop at nothing to cripple us.

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