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Well, Sarah, I posted two links showing that we import far more oil than we export. That we mostly export refined products instead of crude, and if you follow consumption reports you would know our gasoline consumption has dropped off considerably, thereby creating excess capacity at US refineries. And I have also shown that Argentina has to import a lot of its gasoline because of policies that make development of refineries unattractive to private investors - and no private investor will build there now.

So tell us, Sara - in your utopian world, should the US NOT export refined products even though we have excess capacity? Should oil companies instead close those refineries? Or should there be government policies - like Argentina's - that keep gasoline prices lower than world markets, like what is also done in countries such as Iran, which leads to budget-busting deficits.

So tell us, Sara - what would YOUR policies be to effect your view on the evils of global fungibility of oil and refined products? Anyone can complain. Give us a workable policy.

So tell us, Sara

Your attitude is so dang superior and obnoxious (are you like a royal “we”), and you haven’t addressed the question.

It’s claimed to Americans that we have tons of oil to make it so we don’t have to import it anymore if we only would drill it. Is that true?

Not shifting the subject to refinery numbers to fog the room, the answer is no - the oil will go on the global market to whoever contracts with the oil company to pay the highest price for it. That might be the US or it could be another economy.

In addition, due to global trade agreements, our government could give drilling lease to China like Obammy has recently done with the oil pipe line from Canada. China and India are going to continue to grow in oil need to absorb what we produce here.

Americans have no guarenteed benefit from drilling except the mess of it unless we put controls in the leasing agreement and globalists would not tolerate that. America’s not permitted to look out for our own interest and need in globalsim.

You have proided NO evidence American have that guarentee of oil independence. It is a bs claim that the US can become energy independent if we drill our own oil.