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In reply to the discussion: In a first, gas and other fuels are top US export [View all]Blacksheep214
(877 posts)19. Drill Baby Drill?
Can anyone explain how this brain dead slogan actually resonated with people?
Oh yeah! Most Americans are now uneducated, violent ultra-nationalists without a lick of common sense!
Gee, did I say that out loud?
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I work in Oil Refining - I'm glad you read our reports however wrong the interpetation
FreakinDJ
Dec 2011
#29
U.S. refineries can take a tanker full of crappy low quality oil and turn it into excellent fuel.
hunter
Dec 2011
#8
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you one of the reasons fuel costs so much these days.
ixion
Dec 2011
#17
Yeah, it sucks, but it got me that "service connected" line on my VA card and a few dollars.
alfredo
Jan 2012
#46
Have you gone to the VA for that? My ears are fried from my years as Morse Intercept.
alfredo
Jan 2012
#47
Just started rereading The Unsettling of America Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry and this
jwirr
Dec 2011
#26
Yeah, we knew that. They are internationalists when it come to money. That national thing, well,
freshwest
Dec 2011
#31
Yet gas prices remain high. Because oil is an international commodity. Drill, baby ...
DirkGently
Jan 2012
#40