Originally Posted by crockett

Sadly, that's the way it is.. Long as there are good playing jobs and big business is getting rich, then they don't give a fuck about the damage to the environment. The worst part is the oil is not always staying in the US. These oil companies get leases for pennies on the dollar on federal land and then sell the oil on the market to the highest bidder.

The Tax payers don't get any benefit because we are still charged as if the oil,came from Saudi or Iraq..meaning being the worlds largest oil producer means absolute jack shit for us because the govt subsidizes big oil but they don't subsidize oil or gas for consumers. IMO any oil that is drilled on Federal land should have to be used in the US before any is imported. Added to this the tax payers should either be subsidies a percentage for oil drilled on Federal land or should be granted a share of the profits. It's ridiculous that oil giants are buying leases for thousands of acres of land for a million bucks and profiting from that land by hundreds of millions if not billions then raking the tax payers over the coals with the gas prices we have to pay.

The govt is allowing the tax payers to get ass fucked both coming and going from resources on our own a federal lands.