Bush, oil and the irrefutable facts

Just as Bush exploited the fear over 9/11 to lie America into the disastrous Iraq war, he is now using Americans exasperation over high energy prices to scare Americans into approving drilling in pristine areas of our country – not to help lower the price of energy, but to enrich the coffers of his oil cohorts he’s in bed with – and profits personally from.

Here are the irrefutable facts:
1) We use 25 percent of the world’s oil, yet have only three percent of the world’s reserves – we cannot drill our way out of this situation.

2) The oil companies have hundreds, if not thousands of drilled – and capped wells in Alaska, yet wish to exploit and destroy ANWR for six months worth of oil that will take 10 years to reach the market, and likely be sold to Asia.

3) The oil companies have leases on 68 million acres of coastal waters already open to offshore drilling, but they have yet to even begin exploration in these areas

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