[Mariner]

It's not hard to figure out a national policy to protect our strategic energy supply: Domestic Crude.

I'm normally a stridently free market kinda guy, but I also believe their are certain commodities and products that we MUST produce domestically in order to thrive...even survive...as a sovereign country.

Oil, food, ships, aircraft, all armaments...they all fit in the Minimum Essential category.

That's why we need to guarantee the price of Domestic Crude at $75 and Guarantee Tariff of Imported Crude to price it at $90.

These could be adjusted over time by the Congress, but we MUST PROTECT THIS STRATEGIC INDUSTRY IN THE INTERESTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY, Mises and Adam Smith be damned.

[thackney]

That's why we need to guarantee the price of Domestic Crude at $75 and Guarantee Tariff of Imported Crude to price it at $90.

Insane.

Are you trying to destroy the US refining and petrochemical industries?