The Democrat energy plan for lowering oil and gas prices is quite disturbing when you  think about it.  Their plan, via Democratic congressman Phi Hare’s office in the 17th district in Illinois, is to suspend oil shipment to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  File suit against the OPEC oil producers in US courts, and of course raise taxes on the American oil industry. Clearly, the Democrats in congress would cause prices to increase  with these leftist measures.  The Democrats are siding, not with the American people, but with OPEC.  As the Democrat leadership denies American’s high paying long term jobs in the energy sector, the price of oil continues to rise.  With the price at $140 per barrel, oil has become the central issue for every voting  American this election season. America’s energy policy has been written by the Democrat’s environmentalist wing.  These special interests, along with trial lawyers, and Democratic politicians in the federal government and the state level have achieved a stranglehold over America’s oil resources at the cost of every working American.

      The American voters and businesses are fighting for financial survival against the Democratic regulations at the same time OPEC  earns record profits that make Exxon-Mobil’s profit look minuscule. OPEC members earned $673 billion http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/OPEC_Revenues/Factsheet.html   in 2007.  Profits for 2008 are estimated at $1.2 trillion.  Needless to say, Exxon-Mobil’s $40.6 billion in profits when compared to OPEC profits are minuscule.  I, for one am glad that Exxon-Mobil is an very successful American company with American employees. However, the Democrats never attack these OPEC oil giants, they only attack American companies.  That same Democratic party has done everything in there power to harm America’s most productive company.  Democratic policies have rewarded OPEC countries at the cost of denying the America citizenry high paying long term jobs with benefits that result  from America’s natural resources.   At the same time, every major American oil producer has to ward off attacks by every Democrat in politics.  The Democratic policies have, for decades, made the members of OPEC among the wealthiest countries in the world.  This reality also means that the American voters and consumers have and will build the entire economies of OPEC nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Lybia along with 9 others for a total membership of 13.  These OPEC nations have gained great favor with the Democratic party because it has been  the left who has written energy policies which have made the OPEC members rich beyond their wildest dreams.  The left has advanced the economies, with jobs and business development, of stated enemies, and terror supporters, at the expense of the American economy and it’s people.  By supporting OPEC, the Democrats have forced the American people to build the armies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela and others as they fund radical Islamic terrorists    We, the people of America have provided the money to rebuild  OPEC  counties  instead of rebuilding  America.  While supporting policies that have multiplied OPEC wealth, the Democrats domestic energy policies have denied Americans a tax base while cutting high paying jobs that were sent overseas.

    Another very important result of Democratic energy policies has been the funding of terror supporting states in the Middle East and South America.  The Middle East has a long history of the most radical Islamic terrorists in the world.  Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and dozens more enjoy funding from many of wealthy OPEC nations.  Iraq under Saddam Hussain.  http://www.husseinandterror.com/Iran since the Carter administration. http://www.iranterror.com/  Venezuela has attempted to destabilize the democratically elected government of Columbia and is an great ally of Iran.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/20/181037.shtml Democrats have supported these same types of nations in the past.  The Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, has supported trade with Castro in communist Cuba, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3SVok9g34&eurl but not with the  elected Pro-American Columbia government. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/03/america/Colombia-US-Obama.php,
    I would further note that OPEC and radical Islam could not possibly write a better oil policy for themselves than the one the Democrats have written for the America people.  The Democratic energy policies fit the agendas of radical terrorists and OPEC nations but not the agenda of the American people.  The Democratic party has made their choice.