I don’t blame oil companies from exporting oil, if they can get better pricing by exporting. In fact, I would be angry at them if they didn’t. We need our trade deficit reduced and oil exports can help do that.
The key to getting our domestic fuel prices down is consumption and supply.
We actually need to stop decreasing consumption because oil companies are trying to raise prices to match previous income. They have infrastructure to support, unless we want them to fire people and close facilities. The bad economy is creating less travel and less consumption, so the economy has to be improved, but the increase in fuel costs is hurting all aspects of our economy. It is a vicious cycle.
Increasing domestic drilling and exporting to the international market will help our own economy and will help increase consumption which will hopefully get the gas stations competing again low prices to get increase volume.
It is complex. That is why shallow people like BOR and other lefty leaners have difficulty understanding it. They are not abstract thinkers.
See post #48. You have some false assumptions.