Absolutely, and to he** with Murkowski, 0bama and the environuts that are even against pipelines to move oil.
If Alaska can’t move crude to the lower 48, I don’t mind if they close our trade gap by selling some of it to Japan.
But we need the Keystone approved and finished, along with a dozen new refineries started, restrictions on coal mining and coal plants lifted and a hundred other shackles on the energy sector lifted.
We’d create millions of jobs, save people billions of dollars a year on energy costs and thus free up money for the “discretionary” spending that fuels the service economy.