Natural Born Drillers
Why are Republicans turning to "Drill, baby, Drill"?
Unlike natural gas, which is expensive to ship across oceans, oil is traded on a world market... Oil prices are up because of rising demand from China and other emerging economies, and more recently because of war scares in the Middle East; these forces easily outweigh any downward pressure on prices from rising U.S. production. And the same thing would happen if Republicans got their way... Full Story »
Posted by Tanya J. Maurer
