Interesting. We go electric. The money is invested and stays in the US. The rest of the world sends us the money for the crude. Sound simple to the simpletons.
I get the feeling ethanol has the same ideas built in. Consumer gets burned.
No idea.
I am convinced these, commodity markets, are chaotic systems and nobody is in charge. Policies amount to no more than gestures or hopes, and the guys who think they are in charge are even more clueless than the rest of us.
As for gas prices, yes the consumer is being screwed, especially in CA.