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Originally Posted by CD
So when have the oil companies EVER looked out for anything other then their best interests? I find it amusing that by giving into the demands of the oil companies, this will somehow not end up fucking us in the long run. Get real.
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I have no doubt that the oil executives are looking out for their own interests and fuck everybody else.
I even believe that they orchestrated this whole thing to manipulate us into getting what they want.
Now we are left with nothing but hard choices. There's been no investment in alternative energy sources, so we are a decade or more away from being able to get off the oil crack pipe.
Do we 'punish' the oil companies by denying offshore drilling, insuring that oil prices will continue to spiral out of control, demolishing what's left of our economy.
Or do we give them what they want and hold back the prices while we transition? Which makes more logical sense? We've been fucked up the ass. But we can't go backwards. What's in our best interest moving forward?