re: Heard on the news $4 a gallon gas again

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We should be drilling everywhere in the US so we don't have to rely on outside countries for oil, most of whom don't like us and can raise the price on a whim.

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Sorry, but there's a lot of fail here.

First off, we get along just fine with the countries we import oil from. The top nations are, in order, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria. Note that we import about the same amount from the bottom four, and we get about twice as much from the number one source, Canada.

We get along great with Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia (the government, not the people), and Nigeria (same caveat). The only exception is Venezuela but Papa Chavez really needs to keep the oil spigot flowing if he wants to remain in power, he's there by virtue of oil revenues.

Bottom line, most of them like us just fine.

Secondly, they can't just "raise prices on a whim" and expect to make it permanent. We can get oil from elsewhere, nobody has a monopoly on the stuff.