High gas prices on purpose?

Elver

There are no quick fixes for current and future Oil and Gas problems (Drill Baby Drill). There is no unlimited oil supply as some idiots on the radio would have you believe, nor does one party or the other have the only policy for freeing us of foreign oil influence. Had this been true and a quick fix been available trust me the Oil industry president and vice president (Bush/Cheney) would have gotten us out of the mess in short order after all they had 8 years. Unfortunately it just doesn't work that way nor will it. Our energy reserves and the exploitation of those reserves are planned out over long periods of time, many years to decades. We are not going to sell out our children and grandchildren's future for the promise of a quick fix today. And this is not going to change no matter how loud you scream or how angry you get. The process of surveys by the government to leases to Corporate Surveys to exploratory drilling to permits to production is a long process that takes many years and believe it or not has been planned out for those many years so we have a balanced approach to what reserves we do have left in the Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic. The permits in the last three years were planned out 5 years ago based on leases and survey done years before that, the only real hiccup to this came when the Deep Water Horizon (BP Oil Spill) had a major accident and we all discovered they really didn’t have a plan for dealing with a problem miles below the oceans surface other than drilling another hole and destroying other industries for months, years and perhaps decades. And even that was simply a 6 month ordeal and things went back to the plan which was already in place.

You squawked about other answers to our energy problems (Takes Oil To Make Solar Panels). Yes it does but the difference is you don’t have to bring the solar panels for a fill up ever few days it's a one time energy expense vs a continual energy expense. We must take a balanced approach to our energy problems and not simply throw them out for a promise of some future unlimited Oil Fountain some moron told you about on the radio or YouTube. Is solar the answer to all our problems (NO) but it is part of the solution and we should be investing in this sector just as we did with oil a hundred years ago (Oil Subsidies) when the sector just did not have the resources for R & D. This is why I call the Oil Subsidies Corporate Welfare because that is exactly what it has become. The whole idea of the subsidies which started almost a hundred years ago was to support and grow an energy sector which did not have the financial recourses to support and grow the sector, and I agree with this approach but once you have supported the industry to the point of being able to stand on its own 2 feet and be profitable they were intended to end as they should. To continue this is just outright welfare and our dollars need to be spent on the sectors of the future which need the same help the oil industry needed a hundred years ago. That is how government works with industry to build and support our energy sectors and others for our future generations.

Does this align with Oil Corps (No). Corps do not look past monthy, quarterly, or yearly profits and that is by design. This is not to say that is a bad thing but we must not give in to the short term profit goals of some at the expense of our future. If you left it up to Big oil they would extract what we have not even considering the implications this would have say 10 or 20 years from now all for a better quarterly or annual statement. One President will not have any major effect either way whether it is Obama, Bush, Clinton, or Bush 1. What your buying in to is the Corp line, lets get it all now and don't worry about tomorrow. That’s what happens when a party sells out to an individual corp sectors interests. Heres an example, you posted a Fox News Graph of permits showing Obama administration below the Bush administration. Of course Fox (Republican PR Channel) cherry picked just the dat they wanted for political purpose. If you looked at all of the data or the entire graph you would have seen that the Obama  Administration era permits were above the Bush Admin 4 of his eight years and about equal for the 5th.  Again these are not decided over night, they planned out for years and even decades. This is political Theatre (Fear Mongering) nothing more and if you want to buy in to this BS that's fine I don’t really give a BLEEP. But don’t pretend that I am the one who is not Savvy enough to figure it out when quite frankly it is you who is being mislead and yes it is for your vote plain and simple. I am sorry that's the truth but it is. Here is the actual graph fox cherry picked from and below that one is much more actual data not political theatre for factual data on this sector.

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil_and_gas/statistics/Table08.html

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil_and_gas/statistics.html

I meant no disrespect, I am simply pointing out the obvious. Whether you want to believe it or not is entirely up to you, but one thing is for sure if you only immerse yourself in obvious political massaged information you will be manipulated.