[thackney]

How does Trump feel about opening up the areas in the US closed by the Feds to drilling?

[wendy1946]

We could shut OPEC down if there was the national will to do it and the right leader to orchestrate it.

We should be exporting oil and not importing it but the only way you could get from here to there is the same way anybody quits smoking... You'd have to, in a single day, ban all importation of oil for all time. THAT would mess us up about as badly as we were messed up during WW-II for about a year (we'd survive it) after which we'd be in fabulous condition. It would mess OPEC up permanently, and they would not recover from it; they'd go back to living in tents and riding camels.

For about one year, here, there would be:

• Lots of carpooling.
• No motor sports of any kind.
• No recreational use of fuel of any sort.
• Rationing of fuel.
• Massive development of all energy resources available to us.

Again we did survive all of thatfrom 1941 - 1946.

[ScottinVA]

How does Trump feel about opening up the areas in the US closed by the Feds to drilling?

Exactly. That should be his focus, not mindless trashtalking.