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	Name:	water_watcher -
	Subject:	how about this ... please help us understand
	Date:	3/9/2011 7:43:32 PM (updated 3/9/2011 7:47:29 PM)

If you feel that more drilling domesticly will only help the oil companies (I am not sure I agree with that), but lets say for arguement that is true ... don't you think it is a good thing that we are helping a US company that pays US taxes?   Don't you think it will help the US by creating more US jobs, plus all the businesses that support the oil industries that will grow, the communities, the states?   And lastly, don't you agree that it helps our balance of trade by not sending more and more dollars out of the US.

So I gave you that it may help the oil companies ... but I am not sure why that is a bad thing when it has so many pluses to the US economy.   I never get the liberal point of view that profits are a bad thing when it helps economies and people gain employment?   Isn't that better for society than worry a corporation is going to make more money.

And oild companies, as a percent of revenue, make far less than many companies, including most technology companies.   Why are you not complaining about the money Apple is making and the margins they have????