Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.
The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.
The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.