" The ultra-wealthy and ultra-powerful people that are involved in doing this to us are destroying our nation economically just so that they can profit."

High Oil Price = Faster Economic Decline For America

Most Americans have no idea how important oil prices are to the overall health of the U.S. economy. Whenever oil prices have pressed toward record levels in recent decades, it has always resulted in an economic downturn. A high oil price does not just mean that consumers will have to pay a little more at the pump. The truth is that oil is the very lifeblood of our economic system. We have built our entire country around the concept that we can transport lots of stuff very long distances for a very, very cheap price. When that paradigm beings to change, it fundamentally alters the dynamics of the U.S. economy. A high oil price will mean an even faster economic decline for America. The cost of oil factors into everything. A high oil price means that transportation of products and services costs more, travel costs more and energy costs more. It means that consumers will have less disposable income. When the price of oil goes up it benefits the big oil producers and a few others, but for everyone else it is very painful. But perhaps even more importantly, because the U.S. has to import such massive quantities of oil, whenever the price of oil goes up it means that we are becoming poorer as a nation because even more of our money flows out of the country and into the hands of the oil barons.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the United States consumed a grand total of 6.9 billion barrels of oil during 2009. That represented approximately 27 percent of the total oil consumption of the entire globe.

Unfortunately, the U.S. imports over half of the oil it consumes, and this represents a massive transfer of wealth out of the United States.

Just think about it.

Every month America imports massive quantities of oil which we rapidly consume. At the end of the month we are left with nothing.

The foreigners that sell us all the oil end up with a big pile of our dollars. Yes, eventually those dollars are going to be worth a whole lot less. But for now they are using them to build gigantic palaces, they are constructing some of the most outlandish shopping malls and hotels imaginable, and they are even setting up "indoor ski resorts" in places such as Dubai.

Meanwhile, many formerly great American cities are being transformed into rotting hellholes.

Every single month we send the giant oil producers of the world billions of our dollars in exchange for the oil that we are deeply addicted to.

It is kind of like a rich young man that is rapidly going broke by blowing all of his money on a drug habit.

We've just always got to have more, more, more and it is draining more of our national wealth out of us every single month.

Sadly, the truth is that the United States has absolutely huge untapped reserves of oil that the "powers that be" will not let us touch. It turns out that certain interests are making insanely huge profits by keeping America addicted to foreign oil. The ultra-wealthy and ultra-powerful people that are involved in doing this to us are destroying our nation economically just so that they can profit.

It is absolutely sickening.

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