Marsha, the pathetic thing here is your continued farce of calling yourself a "centrist", and your continued name calling when you have nothing valuable to add to the conversation.

stlhead, giving those oil exploration leases, which are sitting idle, are subsidies for the oil companies...we're giving them acess to public resources on public lands because they are supposed to be providing a public benefit.

Instead they are sitting on 10,000 leases and NOT drilling, and instead are speculating on the value of the unused leases, and that is what is driving up prices.

I hope that the public will continue to use less and less oil and force the oil companies into actually providing the benefit for subsidy obligation that they entered in to, but that BushCorp. clearly has no interest in enforcing.

Fish on...

Todd
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