If you are really bad at math, you scream about the manliness of your opponent apparently:
The 14th CD’s newly-elected U.S. Congressman Bill Foster is among a group of Democrats’ who’ve been taunting constituents by saying they’re “re-considering” their position on offshore drilling. Today, House Minority Leader John Boehner challenged the 22 swishy Dems in a letter to “put up or shut up” on the issue.
So the 200,000 barrels a day are going to affect the price of oil? The United States alone imported 10,031,000 barrels a day in 2007. We consume 20,680,000 barrels a day in 2007. We net imported 12,040,000 barrels a day in 2007 meaning the 200,000 barrels a day would only replace 1.7 percent of US imports. Just US Imports.
Of course, it’s a world market and so the effect has to be compared to what it does for the world market and given the daily consumption in 2005 of 83,607,220 the 200,000 barrels a day account for .2 percent (not 2, but .2) of total daily oil consumed. It’s a pointless exercise.
Being too stupid to make an argument and screaming fag at those who aren’t as dumb as you are is something most people grew out of in elementary school.