Watching the oil business go down the drain

Anybody who sells oil that they're pumping at the moment for the present price per barrel of about $37 dollars should have their head examined. The oil should be stored in tanks and if the oil keeps going down, maybe the wells should be capped until oil goes up to at least $80 per barrel; what I'm talking about in particular is oil that has been produced from wells that have been drilled this year. Instead of offsetting drilling expenses with income from oil sold all of those costs should be taken as a tax loss: Those costs will never be recouped from production for a very long time until the price of oil goes up to a reasonable level of $80+ per barrel. Basically all of the badmouthing of the oil industry by the Democrats during the the past presidential election has done is to damage our country's vital interests in being able to have people that can invest in drilling oil wells with a good likely-hood of making a small profit from their investment at the end of it. They're right. It is a matter of national security to be able to produce our own oil domestically. There are a number of permits to drill on government owned lands already issued, so that should be done before we do anymore drilling in the Arctic or the Gulf of Mexico. But nobody's going to drill if there's no chance of making a profit. And nobody should have to sell oil at a loss.

We've seen many businesses ruined in the United States over the years: the steel business, the auto business, the railroads, farming and now oil. The trouble with our representative government is that they're all lawyers with a couple of exceptions and they've never had to find a product that had a reasonable chance of finding a market, founding a business to produce it, which means investing capital at great risk, then keeping that business solvent and weathering the ups and downs of any venture. And the Bush family in particular has done everything possible to destroy our freedoms, upon which our democracy is based! In other words when politicians start playing politics around an issue such as the high profits of the oil business this past year which will be offset by some of the lowest profits that they've ever had as we go into '09, they may not know it, but they are playing with fire and there are dire consequences from their bullshit. They have never understood the oil business and that includes a lot of Republicans.