Sad to see the oil producers take such a strong stance against free markets. Reminds me of the taxi cartel which wants cities to ban Uber and Lyft. They never give their true anti-competitive reasons. They always try to legislate their competition away through some other more “palatable” means.
Opec is pumping huge amounts of oil in an attempt to crush our oil producers.
“Sad to see the oil producers take such a strong stance against free markets.”
My impression from the article was it is not “oil producers” lobbying against imports; it is people in “oil producing states” who believe that they have some kind of claim on the oil produced within their states and that this kind of move will preserve their jobs.
Free markets are fine but our market is not free. Massive and continuous assaults on the energy industry by the EPA regulating them to death, Presidential interference with the industry by blocking the Keystone pipeline, etc. The list goes on and on.
>>Sad to see the oil producers take such a strong stance against free markets
Almost every barrel we import strengthens an enemy of the US. This was a sound strategy back when we were a manufacturing powerhouse and we believed that the world would run out of oil in 50 years. Free trade should never be a suicide pact.
this is not the producers but apparently people associated with production that want jobs