[/quote]. Additionally don't mess with the first or last "quote"

Please define "control pricing" is that what Nixon and Ford tried to do in the 70's? Ask a russian what happens to supply when you try to control pricing. Ok lets concede the idiotic "idea" that adding additional supply won't decrease prices. Wouldn't you rather give your oil dollars to exxon stock holders than the saudi royal family?[/quote]
Thanx for the lesson.
What I meant by control pricing goes back to the beginning of the sentence. Maybe a poor choice of words but this is the jist of it. If we could start pumping enough oil to take care of ourselves then we wouldn't be giving our dollars to the Saudi's. I am also not naive enough to think our own boys, Exxon/Mobil wouldn't gouge us either. I still think we need to aggresively move away from our dependence on oil.

Well I got part of the quoting thing down.