Anyone who believes that our government is still powered by the people has not been paying attention for the last hundred years. our politicians are motivated by those that get them elected. The corporations and the upper-class. After all, what have we as a people done to promote them in their campaigns. Do you honestly think that the American people donated over 2 million dollars to their respective candidates to keep them in the race. Think again about where your politicians loyalties lie.

700 million barrels of oil? If you dumped all of it on the market immediately you might spank around some speculators, but it's hardly enough to do much but get rid of the deterrent hostile countries have against shutting us off from oil completely. It's around a 30 day supply of oil for the US. Oh, what, you didn't know that's what it was for? It's a DETERRENT to keep oil producing countries from slamming the door on us, and it's our only insurance against foreign fuel tyranny since we refuse to use our own resources. Exxon is the 14th largest oil company in the WORLD. Yea, it might look huge by the numbers, but it's a bit player that can't control anything. Those of you that say the oil will hit the world market are correct, but what it allows us if it goes overseas is to have a great export that helps counter some of the dollar crippling imports we partake of now, and even that helps lower the price at the pump.

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