The strategic oil reserves are for times like this. We should also keep an eye on the oil companies and make sure they are not making extreme profits off the backs of the American citizens. After all that petroleum is being pumped from American taxpayers land that has been leased to these oil co.
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No, the reserve is not for time like this, it is for times when we don't have oil available. We do have oil available now, and a LOT of oil available. It is just that Biden (and pseudo-environmentalists) don't want us to use it.
Absolutely! Prices are way too high! Just another attempt of oil companies taking advantage of a big situation like in the 1970's.
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Explain why oil companies would not provide as much oil as possible at a time when prices are sky high. No, the prices are high due to speculation of shortage, given Biden's refusal to open up the spigot (the oil leases he claimed unused are not proven, exploration still necessary. ANWAR is KNOWN
Price is getting ridiculous. Average working person can't afford commuting to and from work.
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We may need our reserves for war before this is over. Increase supply and lower costs by reversing Biden's orders and policies. https://americansforprosperity.org/biden-policies-raising-gas-prices/?fbclid=IwAR3jOvKpxrWnyT1iz2JrBflODu-aV7aHZdj_B4JgTndUI-8XFvAwXp3M1Jw
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Absolutely not. Oil prices (and therefore gas prices) would drop dramatically if Congress would just reverse the disastrous executive orders Biden has put into effect restricting U.S. oil production.
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Why tap into a reserve that is meant for when Oil is unavailable? We have plenty of oil available, it is just that irrational environmentalists don't want us to use it: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/03/07/greenpeace_environmentalism_allowed_putin_to_invade_ukraine_820399.html
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Don't waste the reserves......open the keyst one pipeline, increase production and exploration in the West
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These letters allow people who can't financially compete with investors the opportunity to stand out.
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Yes they should. That is how I sold a piece of real estate I had. Happened four years ago. Was given a higher offer from a developer but I went with the people that sent me the letter. I was able to pick who was going to live next door to me. Have never regreted it. They are the best neighbors!
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Who cares? How is it not fair? Anyone can write a letter. Just another issue liberal politicians waste time and money on.
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We have a Democrat controlled legislature that thinks it should have total control over our lives even to the extent of taking away our freedom of speech.
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people can walk around the trees
ReplyABSOLUTELY!!!! Reflect, love and consider our children's-children's-children's.........
ReplyKinda like a Vonnegut novel. Cut down the trees so the handicapped can see the trees.
ReplyOf course you keep the trees! How long have they been growing; longer than the trails. The path can meander around the trees. Bend is supposed to be a tree city, right?
ReplyTrees produce oxygen, intercept airborne particulates, and reduce smog, enhancing a community's respiratory health.
ReplyDo we really have to even ask this question... Can the designers not figure out how to go around a few trees? The trees are iconic and beautiful and deserve to be spared and shared.
ReplyI absolutely agree with the previous comment. They can work around the trees to make a path. Those are 2 very stately trees. The disabled folks for whom the path is being fixed would probably agree.
ReplyKeep the trees. Gonna knock down a beautiful tree just so you can walk in a straight line? Really? Figure it out. Don't take the trees out.
ReplyTrees are more important than the convenience of humans. This is not Idiocracy.
ReplyWhy cut down those beautiful trees when re-routing around them is possible?
ReplyWe already take out too much nature and replace it with concrete. This is Bend and half the beauty of our area is the abundance of nature interspersed throughout everything.
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