Oil - Soooo misunderstood

It is so amazing that "OIL" is so political and the cause of so much debate.

Oil, is a huge and significant, beneficial part of our world. Why does it get blamed for so many problems?

First of all, there is talk about decreasing our dependency on foreign countries for oil. This is obviously a good thing to do. Doing so would actually decrease the cost (more than it is now). Doing so would allow us to be self-reliant and not deal with others. We have plenty of oil in our country, yet the hypocrisy is that one party will not authorize drilling or pursuing this endeavor. That same party politicizes and lies to the country about oil and who profits from it severely. One party at one point blamed a war's incentive for oil, which is entirely insane. I will not speak further about this. One must only look at the facts and use common sense.

When oil came about, it had several advantages. Frankly, there are a lot of issues to produce electricity and energy. We use electricity in homes for air conditioners, appliances, etc. and we use energy in automobiles, planes, military, etc. Oil is the key to all of this. There are many complicated issues to deal with energy: storage, distribution, production, etc. Oil was the cheapest to produce, there was a viable means to store it and distribute it. Simply in all facets, oil is the cheapest.

There are alternatives to oil, such as wind and nuclear. Frankly, nuclear is the 2nd best to oil, but we were never permitted to pursue it. Obama is fine with Iran using nuclear energy (allegedly that's what they're using it for), however, we can't use it ourselves. Other sources though, such as wind, there are too many issues with it. Wind doesn't exist all the time, you can't store wind, it just doesn't work, and it is extremely costly.

You know, oil frankly works very well. The reason why oil ends up being expensive to us as customers is not because of the guys who make oil. Frankly oil / gas hasn't increased in price as much as most other things such as milk and other stuff. But since the guys in Washington make this a political issue for their own gain, then they try to make the public afraid of oil, trying to inflate issues where they are not there. Simply the reason why gas ends up being expensive is for other reasons.

So why is gas expensive ? Because first of all, there are so many taxes? there are federal taxes, state taxes of several kinds. Never, when the public is outraged at high prices of gas, does the government lower those taxes or remove them? No, they in fact keep it hidden that taxes are in the cost of gas. Also, the other reason why gas is expensive is that the government requires that different formulas and types of gas are produced. So they ration what is produced out of different mixes and octanes of gasolines for different regions of the country and for different vehicles. Like all other industries the government tries to regulate, those either stifle business or they increase the price of the product being regulated so we Americans have to pay more money for the product.

So every time the government talks about this, they have their "special interests" screwing us every time and they continue to be able to fly by under the radar not being blamed for the high prices of gas.

Now the government is trying to force us to buy hybrids. Frankly, hybrids are not what Americans want. If they wanted them, they would be buying them in droves. They are slow, if any performance or power is to be found in them, then they have to have an engine that consumes gas alongside the battery power. And frankly, how are they going to recharge the hybrid (at least earlier models - had to plug in to electricity in the home, which uses what? ) - oil. So it is so hypocritical. We are wasting time and money as government always does. We have something that works well, if they would just leave it alone, we would have our freedoms and not pay through the roof.

Has anyone talked to their electric provider about alternative sources of energy? I have, we all could elect to use alternative energy for our homes power. But did you then look at the price tag? So much more. And who is doing it? None of us. Frankly, it is the good old oil, which works the best for all of us. It has so many good qualities and is easy to meet all our needs.