Crude oil prices soar but they didn't have to as this 2009 government report shows

02-23-2011 • The Political Commentator

As the Middle East burns, the United States has dug its own hole! The premise has been discussed ad infinitum in this blog that insanity is relying on your enemies for anything, let alone for critical resources. Whether it is China for money and REE or the Middle East for oil, we have made our bed (with much of the bedding supplied by far-left organizations and their lobbying victims) and we all now have to lie in it. But you know, it didn't necessarily have to be this way This truth is presented in a 2009 report from the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works titled "CRS: AMERICA'S COMBINED ENERGY RESOURCES LARGEST ON EARTH" (H/T that this report exists to Yid with Lid). This story was told in a memo released at that time by Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The findings were that "A