<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PVVikeFan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[and oil revenues enabled the government to pay off some $23 billion in foreign debt ahead of schedule.]

According to everything I can find Russia's oil reserve is small in comparison to what we have in this country. The major difference is they don't have the far left liberals to interfere with the well being of the country. They don't need permission from Nancy Pelos-Lie to develope a natural resource and put their economy back on it's feet.


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The difference is they WILL drill where they find oil...something many US comapnies WON'T do. Big oil doesn't need Pelosi or anyone else to OK drilling on land they have leased, but they refuse to. What it all boils down to is this: Big oil doesn't care what is best for the country...they only want to drill where they can maximize their profits. I still say make em tap what they've got before they get leases on anything else.