If ‘energy independence’ means Americans paying $4.23 a gallon because of a blockade in the Persian Gulf, then your definition of freedom is nonsense.
Being a ‘net exporter’ on a spreadsheet doesn’t change the fact that the U.S. still imports 6 million barrels of oil every single day because our refineries can’t even process the shale we drill.
True independence isn’t a political slogan; it’s the physical ability to tell the Middle Eastern regimes to pound sand because their commodity no longer dictates our cost of living.
Until we overproduce every form of energy—shale, nuclear, and renewables—to the point of total market saturation, we’re just a net exporter with a glass jaw, waiting for the next Ayatollah to hike our gas price
EU appeaser bump.
“U.S. still imports 6 million barrels of oil every single day because our refineries can’t even process the shale we drill.”
Then we build the refineries here. Problem solved. Also a lot of the oil that we import we turned into value, added products and sell them overseas.
You are an economically challenged, brain-dead, eurotrash central planner - a %#&@ communist.