[Beagle8U]

“All you would need to do is find a spot where you think there could be oil, lease the land, spend maybe 20 to 50 million drilling a well, extract said oil from the ground, transport you oil to the refinery that you buy for a billion dollars and then transport your finished product to your market and sell it Here cheap at your TLI Gas Stations which will cost around two million dollars each.”

That is a fine argument, just as long as your oil company isn’t pumping that oil off public lands.

In that case the public should have a say on exporting it.

Nobody is talking about nationalizing the oil companies, but if we keep getting hosed on gas prices you can bet your ass they will be!

[Oliviaforever]

Should the public have a say in how the cattle that are grazed on public lands are sold?

[Theoria]

Well, the kicker would be to use eminent domain to take land away from people who chose not to sell it. And the products that would be carried on such a pipeline then would be exported out of the country. That would be hysterical.

[JRandomFreeper]

but if we keep getting hosed on gas prices you can bet your ass they will be!

And then there won't be any gas. Just like Venezuela.

/johnny