DNC actions drove refineries out of US. Ditto for production and transport — except for RR owners that profited when the Keystone was killed.
Critics of tariffs are extraordinarily stoopid, even for Demos. Short term the (subsidized) suppliers will take a hit at sales — which will force sales back to US suppliers. Price increase? Sure. So wut? Buy American has always been more expensive. But, pull yer head out. Producing American means more jobs in US — and the $$ stay here.
Longer term, this will incent US producers to move production and jobs back to US — so that tariffs become less important to the market.
The problem is political (well, for people like me on very tight retirement budgets, it’s in our wallets, but I’ll just go graze in the yard with the chickens - what the heck.)
Anyway, the political problem comes if prices in general are up in 2026. That could push Congress to the Dems, and THAT would be a bloody disaster. Hello, President Jeffries? OMG...
I agree about “longer term”, but the problem is getting there.
There hasn’t been a refinery built in the US since 2008.
“Short term the (subsidized) suppliers will take a hit at sales — which will force sales back to US suppliers”
Seriously: what does that mean? Who is a “subsidized supplier”? And what makes you think that refiners absorb price hikes without passing them on?
As for the rest of your post, it has zero to do with the story.