Exactly What Is Light Sweet Oil?

Be careful what you wish for. Now there's an old saying that's certainly worth listening to. We keep having fits about terrorists picking on us. Especially Islamist Fundamentalist terrorists. Why are they bothering us so much? They want us out of the Middle East. Be careful what you wish for. What we really need to do is give them what they want. If we did, it would mean we had found an alternative to Arab oil that was cost effective. If we found that, it would mean the rerst of the world would quickly have it too. That would rob the Arsab world of all it's income. In the meantime they keep flying around our heads like a swarm of honeybees and we keep smearing honey all over ourselves to get rid of them. We want them to stop. Be careful what you wish for. Getting them to stop would be easy. Just get out of the Middle East. Problem is, to do that we'd have to stop buying their oil. Now you'd think that we could just get out and still buy their oil. Well not the good ole U.S. of A. No sirree bob. We have to be there to look after our future investments. We feel the need to protect our interests. Only the oil isn't our interest until we buy it. Of course not in our eyes. To our way of thinking, it's ours until we decide if we want it or not. If anybody else in the world acted that way, we'd have a fit. So, anyway, what would we have to do to get them off our backs? Stop buying their oil. How would or could we do that? Ahh ha. Here's where the fat hits the fire. We'd have to come up with some alternatives. No. We can't use their oil without buying their oil. We can't have their oil without having their oil. And since we can't find enough oil at home to meet our needs, we need some other energy sources. Okay then, what's the problem. The problem is that there's a fairly large minority of people in Congress who won't admit we need to do something. Or even if they're willing to admit it, they're not willing to do anything about it. How come? The oil companies are afraid they'll loose their profit margins. So they contribute enough to those skeptics to get them to block any significant funding of research. That's  the honey in the oil. That's why they call it "light Sweet".