Oil Crisis Created To Change Public Opinion?

[metta]

I have a friend that grew up in Indonesia. He looks at the oil crisis and tells me that he has seen stuff before like this in the country he comes from. He told me that in Indonesia, the government likes to push things to the extreme to push public opinion. He thinks that the US government and oil companies are pushing up oil prices so that they can drill more oil in places like Alaska, where public opinon has previously not supported it. The next day, after he tells me this, I hear talk about the government pushing to drill in the Alaska refuge again...and today...drilling offshore.

Just makes me wonder if he could be right....

What do you think?

One thing is that is true is that Bush has been a big wet dream for the oil industry....


Bush urges Congress to lift offshore drilling ban http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_on_go_pr_wh/offshore_oil;_ylt=AoHtDl0YmF5LhIZIsQcEh3wDW7oF


well....either way...I'm glad that there is a major push for more environmentally friendly alternatives. Hopefully the push to drill in the refuge and offshore will both fail.

 

[bshane]

Wow now the left is making up stuff to hide the fact they caused this crisis.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Wow now the left is making up stuff to hide the fact they caused this crisis.

Here....smoke these:

 

[Orlandude]

Wow now the left is making up stuff to hide the fact they caused this crisis.

Typical. All the failed policies of the right are blamed on the left. That doesn't work anymore. Get into the 21st century and stop hiding your head in the sand. You sound like John McSame.

 

[drhladnjak]

There might be a grain of truth to it if oil prices weren't a global phenomenon. The US just can't control them on its own. Even if they could, because low energy prices pretty much benefit everybody else besides the oil companies, it would be hard for the oil companies to pull it off on their own for very long.

 

[Joshua_me]

Well, of *course* it was...

We have 'oil men' in office. Their only goal is to produce and sell more oil.

Think back. Remember those 'secret meetings' Cheney had with with all the powers that be that control our oil consumption ? If I had to guess, (and, gosh darnit, I bet I'm right) the meeting went something like this...

Cheney: "Ok, the democrats and the 'save the earth' lunatics are still against us drilling for oil off the coast off the United States. Tell ya what. The only way to get the 'Johny six packs' attention is to hit 'em where they live...In their wallets. Let's crank up the gas prices..not to European levels, but to about 5 or 6 bucks a gallon. Once they realize that their very way of life is going to be affected in ways they never even thought about... food prices, air travel, etc. I'll just bet the thought of off shore oil drilling is suddenly not so offensive to them..."

And, *damn* if that's not exactly what has happened.

Folks in the states: You *can't* rely on our news media. They are all owned by the same people that are out to screw us.

So.

They win.

They are the owners of our oil, and we are their bitches.

Simple as that.

 

[metta]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_re_us/energy_poll;_ylt=Ak8JnVShlyQa9TSDvGQa1NwDW7oF

Gas prices change views on energy
High gasoline prices have dramatically changed Americans' views on energy and the environment with more people now viewing oil drilling and new power plants as a greater priority than energy conservation than they did five months ago, according to a new survey.

The number of people who said they considered increasing energy supplies more important than protecting the environment increased from 54 percent in February to 60 percent and the number of people who favor oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge also increased.

The poll showed people remain sharply divided over oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is now off limits. But in the June survey the number of people favoring drilling there increased to 50 percent, compared to 42 percent last February. Those who opposed drilling fell from 50 percent to 43 percent.

 

[Centexfarmer]

There might be a grain of truth to it if oil prices weren't a global phenomenon. The US just can't control them on its own. Even if they could, because low energy prices pretty much benefit everybody else besides the oil companies, it would be hard for the oil companies to pull it off on their own for very long.

That's true, and I think that "Oil Futures" and how they're traded may be a key, as opposed to "supply and demand."

As far as the fear factor goes, if it's just another excuse to open up public lands, and offshore drilling for MORE oil, then yeah, I can see it as a "crisis" to open those places up.

But it will only prolong the "addiction" rather than to help rid us of it.