The free market works, despite OPEC.
While we need to continue investing in tech and infrastructure to access our domestic oil reserves, we should put an emphasis on sucking places like the Middle East and Venezuela dry first.
Maybe we should consider a tariff on imported oil in order to level the playing field. Same thing for goods manufactured in China, Mexico,.....
I am 100% for free trade on a level playing field.
I am also against subsidies to prop any industry up.
If we level the playing field capitalism will take care of the rest....
Also, enforce the anti trust laws!
This is why I love what Ronald Reagan did for this country. He put tax laws in place to motivate small business to expand and create jobs thus resulting in the longest economic growth in the history of our country.
The downfall was Clinton when all the mergers, especially the oil companies took place and foreign imports destroyed our manufacturing jobs. Very few people remember that Hillary was on the Board of Directors of Walmart and they funded Clinton’s primary campaign. Remember Charlie Trie and all the illegal contributions from China to the Clinton campaign that were never prosecuted. I bet Charlie Trie is back in this country keeping a low profile.
Clinton’s opened us up to be addicted to cheap China jobs while destroying our own. Don’t let foreign oil do the same to our oil production.
The only thing keeping the price of gasoline above $2 is the lack of refineries, limiting the supply of gasoline in the marketplace. The supply of oil is hitting a bottleneck due to limited refinery capacity.