Gas Prices vs Polar Bears

They say the polar bears are endangered, well I say that our very freedom is being endangered. The government has shut down drilling in our country to save the animals, the earth, and our planet but I say that it's a power grab. It's amazing how they say they want to help the poor but the poor will soon be unable to go to work because they will be unable to afford the gas they put in their cars to get them there. Once they can keep us in our place our freedoms will be gone, gone, gone!

We lived in Alaska and my husband worked at Purdhoe Bay, and the truth of the matter is that the caribou have multiplied by thousands so the big lie that oil production hurts the animal population is FALSE, a LIE and another grab for more money for the government and power for themselves. The natives in Alaska will not agree to give all the profits to the government so the government won't let them drill. The state of Alaska shares the oil profits with the citizens of Alaska, every year everyone there gets a check, the amount varies according to the states profits. The fight has always been that the US government wanted the profits but the natives have always denied them so they found a way to keep the people down. It's a stand off and the whole of the US suffers, all but the Congress and Senate and they don't pay for the gas that goes into their gas tanks, WE PAY FOR IT, you and I. It comes from the taxes they take from on us to help the needy. Really?

The people of this country have got to rise up and demand the government opens up our land for drilling, and not only that, but we have got to build more refineries to process our oil. It is the peoples oil, it's not a chip in a poker game, it's not a club to beat us over the head with, and we have to send a message to the selfish people that we elected to do the peoples bidding or they are out, they will be stripped of power, they will be banished. It's almost like we have a one party government with the republicans caving to the Democrats on almost every point, and folks, that's not far from a dictatorship. Once they can get us under control with gas being out of our reach for the sake of the planet, then the rationing will happen. Do you have any idea of all the ways that oil and gas touch your lives? It is major and that's why I say that our freedoms are so connected to it, with it either being accessible to us or denied to us.