Who defines the regulatory environment for gas and oil production and distribution? Hint: government.
Which country has the greatest energy resources on earth? Hint: It is in North America and it IS NOT Canada or Mexico.
Which country's regulatory environment (read government, see above) is not allowing private companies to search for, produce, import, refine and sell energy products, specifically oil, at will? No hints. If you haven't gotten it by now, you don't belong on Free Republic.
You are correct the real culprit is the government with their regulations, especially on the the different blends of as. I remember when I bought my car in 2006 it took quite a while before the gauge went down to the next. Now it only takes about 3 trips, of about 4 miles I don't drive my car much. Everyone knows that we have the greatest energy source but the environmental idiots and the rats want to keep us dependent on foreign oil.
I noticed you have attacked several Freepers and say they don't belong on FR. I got some news for you. My signup date shows Apr 26, 2000, but my original signup date was April 18, 1998 years earlier. It was exactly on the day of the big Rally in DC. I had unfortunately not saved my password. So when I changed my Internet provider my password could not be retrieved because my previous email address did not work anymore. I chose a different name, which btw are the last 3 initials of my maiden name and the last 3 initials of my last name.
Your signup date was 04/04/1999
What good is letting every oil company drill where and when they want if they are only going to sell it to other countries? North Dakota has been producing a lot of oil, but we are shipping it elsewhere!
So we let them tap our oil for what? China to buy it up?