Ask these deluded people about the oil companies' desire to REPEAL laws keeping such oil in the US and export it so it can be sold on the world markets.
The right-wingers claiming to be such economic realists and great defenders of "private enterprise" 
show an astonishing ignorance both of economics and how businesses really work. Telling them that if oil would be so plentiful and cheap as a result of "drill, baby, drill" that oil companies would seek to export it for bigger profits seems about as effective as trying to teach chickens how to play Mozart. The argument that corporations would do such things because their managements are expected to maximize such returns for shareholders and other investors seems to be completely lost on them. 
I admit that I'm not one of DU's more progressive posters. I come from a back-ground that had a lot of economic conservatives. But unlike much of the current Teapublican party base, the righties (mostly now deceased) I grew up with had at least some business sense.
The current crop of enviro-bashing right-wing sheeple clearly don't.
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