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Oil producers want U.S. to restrict imports
Albuquerque Journal ^ | 7/6/16 | Kevin Robinson-Avilla

Posted on 07/20/2016 5:37:43 PM PDT by brownwill6767

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“Why are we buying imports from the Mid-East when OPEC has launched an offensive to basically shut down our industry?” Fine said. “It’s the same oil we’re producing in our shale basins where we have great supplies to meet market need. We can be completely self-sufficient, so let’s cut off over-supply of cheap imported oil.”
1 posted on 07/20/2016 5:37:43 PM PDT by brownwill6767
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To: brownwill6767

Oil is cheap because it is a commodity. It expensive when it is scarce everywhere.


2 posted on 07/20/2016 5:41:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (If 0bama had a son...he would be killing people.)
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To: brownwill6767

Who is in favor of funding Jihad?


3 posted on 07/20/2016 5:49:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: brownwill6767

And everyone should only patronize my service as I am conservative and a Free Republic fan!


4 posted on 07/20/2016 5:50:01 PM PDT by rey
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To: brownwill6767

This is a case of a bad economic proposal potentially being good policy. We need a tariff on imported oil to boost our production and to drive the international price through the floor. This will defund the Mohammedans and their terrorism. Any such policy, though, will need to be carefully devised so that it doesn’t last beyond the collapse of the funders of Islamofascism.


5 posted on 07/20/2016 5:52:06 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: brownwill6767

Artificially controlling a fungible commodity won’t do anything except give the government the ability to make fuel $10/gallon.

So we don’t import, big deal. Someone else will take our “share”. We’ll pay more and terrorist will still get funded by the Saudi Wahhabists.

The only way to fix those people is to come up with an alternative fuel source that doesn’t require oil. That’ll send those nomads back to obscurity. Of course nothing is as good as oil yet, so we’re a long way away from that.


6 posted on 07/20/2016 5:55:06 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: brownwill6767

This is the same crap the ethanol criminal complex uses to force us to buy their product.

Let the free market set supply and demand.


7 posted on 07/20/2016 6:06:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: brownwill6767

We can’t do that.


8 posted on 07/20/2016 6:08:39 PM PDT by major-pelham
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To: brownwill6767

How bout we just take their oil?

And put American companies in charge of those oil fields.


9 posted on 07/20/2016 6:09:10 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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Don’t worry. American oil companies will ALWAYS work in America’s interest. If U believe that you’ll believe anything.


10 posted on 07/20/2016 6:17:03 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Malsua

Not going to happen in out near future and it wasn’t that long ago the price was controlled by the Government.


11 posted on 07/20/2016 6:18:26 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: brownwill6767

So they simply want the government to add another tax on drivers and pass the revenue on to them? Nuts!


12 posted on 07/20/2016 6:18:30 PM PDT by Mark was here (Isn't attacking Trump's ex-girlfriends a "war on women"?)
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“Don’t worry. American oil companies will ALWAYS work in America’s interest. If U believe that you’ll believe anything.”

I don’t trust ‘em.

But I’d still prefer them to run Mideast oil fields than any Muslims.


13 posted on 07/20/2016 6:20:46 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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Notice they’re all for the gubermint establishing a price floor, but are mute on the prospect of a price ceiling.


14 posted on 07/20/2016 6:23:43 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: brownwill6767

Wrong direction.

It’s time to move toward getting government out of the business of choosing business and industrial winners and losers.

A big part of that is to end government support and subsidies of commodities and agriculture products.

Let the free market become free again.


15 posted on 07/20/2016 6:25:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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“Who is in favor of funding Jihad?”

Oil is a commodity, thus jihad is funded if you buy a barrel of oil from Midland or Saudi Arabia.


16 posted on 07/20/2016 6:25:06 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

We could always steal Saudi Oil. Iran’s too.


17 posted on 07/20/2016 6:25:52 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: ConservativeMind

Let’s block it! We have mineral rights in Eagleford Shale and the MUZZIES screwed us out of an oil lease a couple of Thanksgivings ago. I want lots of money and then I can donate to Free Republic and Trump.


18 posted on 07/20/2016 6:30:39 PM PDT by magna carta
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Back when I was paying $3.75 a gallon for the gas I use in my business, and every waitress in North Dakota was driving a new F-350, I acted like a big boy and didn't call for the government to help me out.

What goes around, comes around.

19 posted on 07/20/2016 6:31:37 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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“We could always steal Saudi Oil. Iran’s too.”

We could, but that would be very expensive and cost many Americans their lives.

And if you do favor that, you can jump on the Internet and find the nearest Recruiting Station.


20 posted on 07/20/2016 6:34:35 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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