Crude Oil Imports have turned back higher..

( https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTIM... )

Now granted most are still coming from Canada... but we just turned down Keystone.. and Canada just elected a more AGW friendly leader to boot..  Can you make $40 Tar Sand Crude Work?

...for how long?

Now when there's peace.. the cheapest place to produce.. is in the Middle East.  That area is going to win until all heck breaks loose..

How do you solve this?


( http://oilpro.com/post/20528/isis-undermining-iraq-oil-production-p... )

skipping all the way down to the bottom line..

Bottom line: The ISIS/jihadist threat to oil supplies has been significantly underestimated. Events increasingly point to a “new normal” of production stagnation in Iraq due to physical threats, sectarian violence, and political dysfunction driven by the polarizing effects of ISIS’s rise in Syria and Iraq. In short, ISIS’s campaign to spark a civilizational war offers a slower-acting, but powerful supply side force that is poised to help reduce the global supply glut over the next 24 months. 

Just for the record.. I supported Bush/Cheney.. It cost us a lot to get a foothold.. namely 4500 lives plus those wounded..  We changed leaders just at the point in time that we needed to stay the course and have now created Chaos..

Are we going to Start all over again?

How many lives this time?

Think Iran is gonna do any better?

KSA sits right next door.. Can we rely on them?

???

The RFS Mandate doesn't even amount to a fraction of a penny on the HUNDREDS Of BILLIONS of Dollars of the COSTS of ALL of THIS.. not to mention the LOST LIVES.. as well as the TURMOIL and Strife in Stiring things up over there.. it's a bee hive..  Their populance pays a price also.. some who otherwise would welcome peace.. their lives get shredded also.. as the fighting is occuring in their countries!!

We SHOULD HAVE WON IT WHILE we Could have.. and SECURED the PEACE.. but it looks like THAT SHIP has Sailed. 

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Changing topics:  Clarification: President Eisenhower didn't raise taxes.. they were already in place.. he just had the sense to pay for the bills while he could...  RIGHT NOW.. we are in a RELATIVE Period of Prosperity.. it is NOW that we NEED TO PAY THE BILLS.. It DOES NOT MATTER WHY or WHOM incurred the bill.. only that the BILLS MUST BE PAID.. it's a MORTGAGE on our future.. if we can't do it now.. HOW are we EVER going to get on top of it as things spiral out of control again in the future?

That Calls for Courageous Leadership..  Getting the Country to DO SOMETHING WHICH IT DOES NOT WANT TO DO.. but MUST.

So who is THAT guy?  Or Gal?

That's where I'm at...

Ya'll are fighting over Mandates.. when it's your FREEDOM that ya need to be concerned about.. if not for you.. for your kids.

Yes I'm sick and tired of listening to R's Whine about Tax Cuts..  bunch of spoiled babies...  Who Cares.. ??  Not me..

Pay your Gosh Darn TAXES AND SHUT UP ABOUT IT!!!!!!!  Thank your Almighty that its ONLY MONEY that your countrymen are asking of you.

Think about the poor sob throwing up in a Landing boat on his way to the beaches in Normandy..  

10,000 US Soldiers DIED on ONE DAY to liberate FRANCE...10,000 for crying out loud...

DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY!!

PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED to give us This Country.  Take CARE of your neighbors.. Work TOGETHER to SOLVE the Issues.. 

mandates.. are the LEAST of our problems...