[RegulatorCountry]

I've advocated a tariff on imported oil in order to keep the fracking revolution going in the past, not a popular position with ardent free-traders on FR admittedly. But, we're dealing with a cartel. And not only that, but a cartel that threw our nation into disarray in the seventies with an oil embargo, and again in the eighties with exactly what they are doing here. This is in no way, shape or form free trade. Allowing OPEC to wreck domestic oil production, again, in service to some theoretical "freedom" that only we're embracing, is foolish to the nth degree.

[SatinDoll]

I’m all for an overhaul of our tax system, and that requires bringing back tariffs.

Screw free-traders. Americans have suffered enough because of that silliness.

[Grzegorz 246]

“I've advocated a tariff on imported oil in order to keep the fracking revolution going in the past, not a popular position with ardent free-traders on FR admittedly.”

If oil really goes down to $20 a barrel (which I doubt - It will rather stay at around $50, which is much more “normal” than those crazy +$100 prices) that could make sense. Besides, I'm sure there are many other “tools” that could make the fracking going even with very low oil prices.