Thank you for your detailed information. At my AOL email I was just served up more information, which you can check for accuracy considering the source. According to this we are actually exporting slightly more oil than we are importing, thanks to lower usage in US. We are also exporting gasoline. Oil companies are selling to the highest bidder and don’t care a fig about us consumers and our gasoline prices. A lot of our exports are to Europe and Latin America. One thing that worries me is that so much of our refining capacity is so vulnerable to hurricanes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/united-states-gas-export_n_1177559.html?ncid=webmail3
Oil companies should not sell to the highest bidder?
As an economy, we should not attempt to make more oil available, thus lower prices for everybody?