[brownwill6767]

“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.”

[ConservativeMind]

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

[Paladin2]

Who is in favor of funding Jihad?

[rey]

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

[achilles2000]

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.

[Malsua]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[major-pelham]

We can’t do that.

[JPJones]

How bout we just take their oil?

And put American companies in charge of those oil fields.

[Mark was here]

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

[Iron Munro]

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.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

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.

[HamiltonJay]

So you get them to lift the ban on exporting oil that you wanted and now you want them to ban imports as well? All buying your own laws is so much fun..

[b4its2late]

Let the market work.

[Redbob]

Just like Detroit wants to restrict Jap imports, and Louisiana has gotten imported sugar taxed at an obscene rate.

Maybe a better plan for them would be to learn to compete effectively. Or take up flipping burgers.

[CedarDave]

A few days old but worth a look.

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