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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Too clarify...
	Date:	7/1/2008 8:41:41 AM

World-wide gas prices are higher than the U.S. for one reason, taxes. Europe taxes like mad fools which is why their economy always lags behind ours (exception being Ireland which has gotten the message). It seems to me that the political tipping point for gas prices is $4 per gallon. Suddenly a large majority of Americans favor drilling in the continental shelf (50 or so miles ofshore). Less so in ANWR mostly because people still don't understand it is a God-foresaken place that no one visits and we would only occupy a tiny percentage of it for exploration.

Having worked in the oil industry early in my career (in exploration as a geophycisist), I can tell you absolutely that when politicians talk about the undrilled lease acres they are talking absolute nonsense. Here is how it works. Oil company pays the government to explore land (the lease), they go out and spend millions of dollars doing seismic exploration to see if there are any prospects to drill, those that look promising get drilled, those that don't are abandoned (the price of doing business in the oil industry).

Also, the talk about we can't drill our way out of this mess, it will take 10 years to get the oil, etc. is also silly when you consider the alternative. How long will it take to bring uncertain alternative energy to the table? Nobody even knows whether something will work, let alone when. How long do the working poor and people on fixed income, small businesses, etc, have to pay these high prices before we do something. All we get is politicians beholden to special interest environmental groups saying no, no, no to more exploration and production from one side of their mouths while complaining about high prices and our dependence on foreign oil out of the other side. This is a CLASSIC example of what Ronald Reagan believed, government isn't the solution to our problems, government is the problem.