Reply #9: Last year

[Andy823]

I think it was around December, 60 minutes did an interview with the oil minister, or energy, not sure if it was this same guy, but he said $55 a barrel was needed to run the country, but more was better for them. He also talked about the new drilling stations that had cost billions to build, all state of the art stations built with the "excess" money they made during the Bush years. He also talked about a project they were working on building a huge "solar energy" farm in the dessert. He said they planned to sell energy from the solar farm to other countries. Another thing he admitted to was that they did not want to see new sources of renewable energy developed because it hurt their bottom line profits!

We need to get off the oil, and produce renewable energy so we don't have to go through the BS we went through for 8 years with Bush, and the increasing cost of fuel every year the was in office! As has already been mentioned, things will go back to the way they were when the economy gets better, and that may be good for the oil industry, but not for the people of the U.S. and around the world! Green, renewable energy is the way to go, and the U.S. can get in on this now, or wait till China corners the market on these products. We can put a lot of people to work, but if we listen to the oil companies, and the republicans in congress who are in the pockets of big oil, it will never happen, and we will be back to paying the same high prices, maybe higher, that we did last summer!