[dp0622]

You do know that ALL the oil here doesn’t have to be sold in the United States and much isn’t.

Unless you’re thinking of a govt takeover in the event the govt needed the oil.

Saying the USA is energy independent sounds more like something a dictatorship can say, because all the oil belongs to them.

That’s not the case here.

[Erik Latranyi]

Being “energy independent “ means you export more than you import.

It has nothing to do with gov’t propaganda.

Thanks, but go back to socialist school.

[wildcard_redneck]

“Saying the USA is energy independent sounds more like something a dictatorship can say, because all the oil belongs to them.

That’s not the case here.”

What? When people in America say that America is energy independent they mean that if the rest of the world put put in oil embargo on the United States we would be just frickin fine. What’s all this “dictator would say” crap you’re talking about?

[arthurus]

We are energy independent and can produce all the oil we need right here. The market, so long as we adhere to the market system, will keep sufficient oil in America should the Middle East get cut off by war. Oil prices will , of course, rise domestically but we will have all we need and the prices will not rise nearly so catastrophically as they did during the Carter Embargo or the run-up to $140 more recently.