Mr. President, American superiority in energy security means self-sufficiency: Throwing off these trade shackles then is the fight for fair trade in Steel and Aluminum, we must prevail in the fight for US oil producers too.”
You post essentially the same thing just moments apart.
For your own edification perhaps you ought to check out just how much oil we import since the shale oil revolution
Protectionism is a great political idea - until EVERY industry in your country begins to ask for protection from competitors.
After that, prices and inflation surge.
Oil does NOT need to be protected. It is not something that will go away if we don’t raise the price to American consumers. Americans are the best most efficient producers of oil in the world. Americans will continue to progressively reduce the cost of extracting the oil and continue to raise the estimates of recoverable oil in the ground.It is what has happened. It is what is happening. It is what will happen. Protecting the industry now will reduce the drive to greater efficiency and drain American consumers further. Yall Mercantilist tariff freaks will complain right along with the rest of us when we have to pay 50% more for our gasoline and more for our groceries and everything else because we put tariffs on foreign oil, tariffs that actually raise the world price of oil and push more money to the jihadists.
Quit abusing the frontpage sidebar.