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National Security? You’re In Good Hands with Mobil!

Ok. We need to open up Alaska and the ocean around America to more drilling for oil. Why? Well, national security, of course.

Duh. I should have known. National security it is. But.....how does drilling for oil in Alaska and the oceans help our national security? I’m not quite sure I understand.

The story kinda goes like this. The Middle East, Russia, and Venezuela have all the oil. We need our own oil so we don’t have to buy it from them. The bad guys are the reason that oil prices have hit the roof. Our own oil = our national security. Pretty simple, right?

NOT!

If I understand the plan of the powers that be, the idea is that we need to open up new reserves of oil here in America so we don’t have to depend on OPEC and the other bad guys that have all the oil. How are we going to do it? Is America going to drill for oil? Well.......not exactly. It seems that the only players drilling for oil will be the Shells and Mobils of the world.

These are the same guys who have made record profits in the oil bonanza that we are currently experiencing. These guys are not American corporations anymore. They are international conglomerates with interests all over the world. Their primary concern is not America. In fact, they have been the ones milking America and causing our "National Security" crisis. Our response? Open up more drilling for them!!!

Maybe I’m just a simple guy, but it seems really stupid to me to trust our National Security to the guys that have put their own greed and corporate interests ahead of the well-being of our country. Is it just me, or is it pretty obvious that if Mobil and Shell and the others open up more drilling here in the US, they will be getting yet another boost in profits. They won’t have to pay to bring the petroleum to the US, it’ll be here already. The actual oil won’t belong to America, it will belong to Shell and Mobil.

But I may be just too cynical. I should close my eyes, click my heels together three times, and chant, "there’s no place like Shell.....there’s no place like Shell." I don’t think that would be any worse than the dreamland our politicians are living in if they really think that the big oil companies are on-board with our National Security interests.

Well, I think I see Kansas, Toto.

Happily Ever After,

Blawgerman