[DB]

Perhaps you ought to read both what I was responding to and what I posted before commenting.

Everything we produce takes energy including chips.

We compete with the world on everything we export.

Artificially raising the cost of energy here while lowering it for our competitors is bad business. Period.

And I was responding to the idea of the government artificially holding the price of oil high so other alternate sources of energy could compete (if you can call that competing...).

[RegulatorCountry]

"Perhaps you ought to read both what I was responding to and what I posted before commenting."

You were responding to me, so I do have a passing familiarity, lol.

If cost were the sole or even primary consideration, the US would export very little.

Energy costs comprise a far lower percentage of production costs now than during the energy "crisis" years of the 70s.

Wildly gyrating energy costs and unpredictable restrictions of supply are bad for business, too; we have been experiencing this since late summer.

The current "system" is very vulnerable, and we've witnessed the rapidity with which supply can be almost totally disrupted. A greater domestic source of supply, whether that supply is from ANWR, oil shale, coal or something else is a bit of a sideshow. Any one of these, or a combination thereof, would suffice.