Because as a nation we got dumb down, lazy, stupid, corrupt and incompetent.

are you retarded? oil is beside the point, the goal for the evil people is to make war happen. it is not about the oil, it is about war, they like war, they want war. it is an extension of their colonizer mindset, to force people to do their bidding, to have hierarchy, to have passive income, to have interest on their investment, to enslave everyone so that they don't have to work but everyone else works for them.

they are not sitting around a table wondering how to get oil, there is plenty of ways, no they are sitting around the table talking about how to make theater so that idiots like you believe that war is the necessary. that is their theater because they don't like to be treated like rapists, plunderers, genociders, child trafficers and cannibals. they want you to think of them as brave heroes who sacrifice themselves for your safety because that sounds better then rapist cannibal.

>>79039
My whole point is the wars are NOT necessary at all. We should simply be refining our own oil and stay out of the middle east. Why are we not refining our own crude anymore? We should.

>>79044
you said

>Maybe then we wouldn't be forever stuck in Middle East wars!?

and that's bullshit because then the theater would just be around something else in order to produce more war.

>>79046
Citizens need to draw a line in the sand then and refuse to fight these wars, and if the government tries to enforce a draft, then draft enforcers risk getting flanked like back in the Vietnam days. I don't know what else is going to stop a bunch of war mongering scumbags. Refuse to be cannon fodder.

>>79033
>Why doesn't America simply REFINE OUR OWN CRUDE like we used to 40+ years ago???

That's too much work dude

Americans might say that they're not going to resist the police state, but Americans who say that there is no tyranny make Libertarians lose their minds.

>>79068
No labor, no first world status anymore. If we don't build more nuclear power plants and start refining our own crude then at some point energy will be rationed and privileged to the very rich and government entities including data centers while everyone else lives in third world squalor. I bet that's exactly their plan too, guarantee it.

A long time ago we implemented fiat currency.

The problem with enforcing your moneys worth with the authority of your government is that those outside of your government's authority aren't required to see any value in your money.

So we instituted the petrodollar to ensure that internationally our money was backed by the oil purchased from the countries everyone else was getting their fossil fuels from.

That's something we had to use our military to defend for a long time until recently.

Now with the current global situation we are needing to go back to being self reliant upon the massive quantities of oil sitting under our feet that we just simply stopped using.

All the equipment knowhow and most importantly the infrastructure and communities that existed to drill that oil out of our own lands is long gone and will need to take decades to replace.

We don't have decades to replace it.

So we are pretty screwed.

But yeah, maybe one day we will have those towns again that are built around drilling up fossil fuels again.

Though probably not.

Truth be told we've been screwed over on this for a very long while.

So yeah, like Venezuela, who had oil, and at the same time, didn't. Its the same for us.

Well get ready for more price inflation. It is only going to get worse and worse from now on.