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Originally Posted by deacon blues

They say the president can't control gas prices. Yet if he announced today the opening of more public lands for new drilling, if he lifted the blockage of the Keystone Pipeline, if he presented a strategy for more domestic production, based on those efforts, that speculators and investors would cause the prices to drop almost immediately. There would be a surge of confidence in the market and an injection of security in America that Middle Eastern nations would have a diminished ability to manipulate us.

I agree with that but I see NOT drilling here as one of the best national security moves we can make....provided it is not our undoing. We keep this oil for emergencies. Of course, we may be just about there.