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We
need to recognize that we have a POLITICAL oil problem, not a OIL SUPPLY
problem.
We are
not over-using "fossil fuels" - there is yet a vast supply of native oil,
right here within the USA, so WHY do we import a product we have so much of?
We do not need to import so much as a single drop of oil sourced from outside
our national borders for the next 200 years.
The
false Idea that we have reached PEAK OIL is the other side’s view of
(“peek-a-boo”) oil and is total nonsense similar to the mid 1970’s hoax. It is
what it always was, a marketing argument for ridiculously high prices. And a
Big LIE!
We
need a US Congress willing to SERVE We the People, once again. And not Big
Oil as is currently the case.
We
need legislation to break the strangle hold oil companies have over refineries
production. TWO different functions, TWO DIFFERENT kinds of companies.
They
need to be one or the other, but not both. AT&T was broken up. Oil companies
can be broken up too.
These
new laws need
· to bar oil producers from owning, controlling and running
refineries.
· to have national goals to build new refineries, building redundancy
and not scarcity of refined supply.
· to shore up our national security by doing so, and
· to avoid Nuclear Warfare by removing our purchasing from imported
Middle East oil.
· to provide incentives to stop importation of foreign oil within 90
days of enactment.
· to BEGIN pumping American Oil from American soil or be forever barred
from pumping oil from any American ground sources.
· to set up a brand new government oil company whose only job is to
pump oil from American wells, with profit sharing checks going directly to
reimburse Social Security Trust fund’s previously robbed by Congress making
them presently unsound.
· to set a floor price for every barrel of oil domestically produced of
$30/barrel over production cost to encouraging domestic production. This bars
foreign nations from engaging in predatory pricing practices as well.
·
It is true that sweet crude oil from US ground sources are profitable as low
as $30/barrel. We have plenty to last us a long, long time.
· to clearly identify and go after both on-shore and off-shore
strategic new sources of oil for US consumers especially while we are at war.
This practice was common during WWII and we must do this with every oil
product domestically produced, lest we loose control of our own national
economy. We should take immediate notice that even President Bush has called
for us to BREAK "our" foreign oil "addiction", and this is the way of doing
so.
· to federally mandate that every gasoline & diesel pump must read:
“OIL PRODUCED IN USA", if applicable or in the alternative, “Oil Imported from
the Middle East," (or from its country of origin, just as it applies to every
other kind and type of product).
· to exercise the authority the US Senate has to pull out of any
"Treaty" deal standing to frustrate the Will of the American people in these
matters.
· to levy a $30.00 tax on all imported oil. No imported oil gets sold
or used here for less then $60.00 per barrel. The tax should be segregated to
secure our unfunded liability for (perhaps National Health Care), but at least
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to those citizens who are too infirm
to take care of themselves. NO, we are NOT talking about a tax that would
increase the price at the pump! NO! How so? Oil sourced from US Ground
Reserves gets sold for no less then $30.00 per barrel over production cost.
NOTE: When oil is IMPORTED, it must sell for no less then $60.00 PER
BARREL and it is from this resource that unfunded liabilities are recovered.
Current fuel station prices (up to $4 Bucks Plus per gallon) are based on
$90.00 to over $120.00 per barrel, so new prices per gallon will come down,
EVEN WITH these new taxes. Gasoline Prices will collapse and tax revenue
goes up.
Ø
We can and need to SOLVE our problems, not compromise with special interests
who lobby Congress to maintain them.
Ø
Nuclear Warfare out of the Middle East is hardly a sound environmental policy
result. Such results are the fruits of the oil lobby”s proposals and we shall
know them by their fruits.
Ø
Environmental advocacy proposals need to be judged by their results and
dismissed if not consistent with protecting all Americans from predatory
pricing for oil and oil products. A Blue Ribbon panel needs to report back to
Congress more and more information about how what such groups advocate assures
ridiculously high prices and profits for the oil companies, rather than true
sane concern for the environment.
Ø
Disclosure of environmental groups accepting funding from oil companies and
oil foundation grants will reveal those who need to be watched:
Again,
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
Is
it not racist for Americans to say it is "okay" to take oil out of Arab
natural resources and not from our own? When we cease to buy oil in the
Middle East, we cut “terrorist” funding. Would this not be a tremendous
benefit?
We
need to get have you, Congressman (Insert Reps Name) on the record as
our Congressman making sense out of this and introducing legislation to bring
it about.
Do you take money from oil companies? If you do, are you willing to donate
every cent of it to non-profit organizations? Are they willing to notify these
oil company campaign sources that their money will NO longer determine
who you serve, or how you vote on National legislation?
Thank you,
Sincerely
___________________________
Name. Date.
LETTER # 2: Or
You Can Use This Letter which as you can see, was sent out not just to a
Federal Rep, but a State of New Jersey Rep. It is self-explaining. Composed by
Bryan Roscoe of Egg Harbor Township, NJ -- (Just 9 miles from Atlantic City, NJ):
Honorable
Assemblymen Amodeo/Polistina:
I am writing to
ALL of my Representatives this subject is just too important not to. I
urge you to SUPPORT the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Development Act, SB1111. The
act promotes development of Oil located in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
I fully realize
that this is a Federal issue and it is politically incorrect but we as a
nation are facing hard times ahead of us. Our Representatives both federal and
State must act now.
With gas prices
surging higher and higher in the United States, Sen. Orrin Hatch believes some
of the nation's energy cost dilemmas may be alleviated by Utah's resources.
Hatch, R-Utah, told
the Deseret Morning News editorial board August 15, 2005 that tar sand and oil
shale resources in Utah could be used for oil production.
"We have more
recoverable oil in Utah and Colorado than in the Middle East," Hatch said in a
July 26 press release. "Yet Utah imports nearly one-fourth of its oil from
Canada tar sands, even though we have a larger tar sands resource in the state
that until now has remained undeveloped."
Hatch said Utah's
energy future also looks bright because of an estimated 1.5 trillion to 3
trillion barrels of oil that is recoverable in Utah. "I think it's closer
to 3 trillion," he said.
Hatch's Oil Shale
and Tar Sands Development bill is part of a comprehensive energy bill that
includes other provisions he authored.
One provision,
Geothermal and Renewable Resources, SB 1156, would promote geothermal energy,
a domestic energy source that according to a press release from Hatch's office
could provide energy for more than 22 million homes if fully developed.
"Utah sits on some
of the biggest and most important geothermal reservoirs in the country," Hatch
said.
The energy
legislation was agreed on by a Senate-House negotiating team in July, and now
must be agreed to by the House and Senate.
I am asking you once again to
SUPPORT the Sen. Orrin Hatch Bill SB 1111 and would you be willing to
circulate a letter to all other United States Senators and or New Jersey State
Representatives (which ever legislatively appropriate) requesting them each to
do the same?
A important note: possibly a New
Jersey State Resolution may be passed in order for the word to get out of
the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Development Act, SB 1111. The act
promotes development of hydrocarbon in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
Again I fully realize that this is
a Federal issue but the state can do something. You can put it in the official
records as the Assembly Minutes as a bipartisan message. You could have a
Joint Resolution and express an opinion or you can have a One-House Resolution
to express your opinion in this matter. You could write letters to other
Federal and State Representatives.
We as Representatives and
Constituents of this great nation must battle and defeat this overbearing
crisis. I am now paying over 7% and climbing of my annual fixed income to my
energy resources. This is a national crisis unlike we have ever seen before at
the rate of the dollars per barrel from the Middle East.
I am also interested in
finding out if you support avoiding an
environmental and nuclear holocaust arising out of the Middle East, by passing
legislation that will create a brand new oil company, one that pays dividends
and profit sharing checks to
ALL
current Social Security recipients, from revenue generated by this new oil
company,
dedicated solely to extracting oil from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, North and
South Dakota, and Montana.
Thank you for your gracious
consideration