They have been drilling more oil in the US than ever, but they already signed a deal with Exxon to send the Keystone XL pipeline oil overseas, so it's not a matter of drilling more oil it's a matter of how much profits the oil companies can make (which they can make more money selling the oil overseas obviously b.c that's where they are selling the increased oil they have drilled)
Now the GOP is obviously in the pocket of big oil b.c they are giving them $4B every year (even though they make nearly $200B profits)
and they spew the Big Oil line, since they are already drilling more US oil than ever before
and people are driving less in the US than before , the gas prices should be going down not up
(it's all a big oil scam to make increased record profits every year!).
They'll find any excuse they can to increase gas prices every Summer (b.c that's how they make bigger profits every Summer, and they got the GOP giving them cover by blaming Obama or any Democrat they can for it, but it doesn't change the fact that they are drilling and exporting a record amount of oil overseas and they are making record profits, and that's why they do it
there's no oil shortage, they just make higher profits by increasing gas prices whenever they can(their profits go up and their executive salaries go up every single year, and the GOP gives them cover by blaming any Democrat they can think of!
Edited 5/30/12 by KLake409
Edited 5/30/12 by KLake409
Edited 5/30/12 by KLake409