And managing our supplies of energy are a crucial part of National Security.
How much of our blood and treasure has been lost to ensure the free-flow of oil from the Middle East, that, and having to cozy up to a bunch of shady characters to do so?
Well no longer should we sweat ME oil and let them give it away if they have to, we can buy it as fast as they can pump it at super cheap while ours sits in the ground. It’s not going anywhere.
The entire petro industry is on notice that we are not dependent on them. If we completely stopped imports and let our own oil field go full blast we would have those workers back at work but the petro industry would continue to raise their price til we squealed about importing cheap oil again.
Capitalism does run on greed.