@**dvlenk6 ** I hope you and I can be friends in the forum and not take these matters too much to heart..   opinions are like A_ _  Holes, everyone has one...  

When I read your concerns against certain attacks against the oil companies..  I hear you say.. "what are we going to do without oil if it is shut down today and what are we going to substitute it with..."  Right!    Good question..  Now, No one wants to shut down the oil pipes this minute... This is a mistake to assume..  I assure you that I wouldn't want to "just" shut down the oil and not have a substitute on hand...

The reason some people ( particularly Liberals)  attack the oil companies is to get those oil companies to co-operate in finding an alternative source..   Alternatives have been around for a long, long time and big oil industry has spent and still does $ Billions $ on lobbyist  in Washington to keep congress from accepting and setting forth bills that toughen laws and forces them to get them to either step out of way or help out....  They don't want to.. They talk the talk but lack the walk..

This is what the fighting words and hostilities towards the oil conglomerates and empires are about.. to voice our displeasures at them... Believe me they really don't want to let a good viable source of energy to emerge... I don't blame them..  I don't blame the congressmen getting the free trips, perks and checks...  do you?   No one wants to shut down anything...  We as people must prevail on this...  Show your dislike for paying $3.00 a gallon..

Hope you see my point...  if it doesn't apply let it fly...

Thanks

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