[thackney]

Increased domestic drilling is a great idea, but not without breaking ground for a new refinery or two

When fixing the problem, fix the biggest problem first. Although our refinery capacity is too small, it is not near the problem of our lacking domestic oil capacity. We could double the amount of domestic produced oil and not exceed the capacities of our refineries.

U.S. Refining Capacity

US Oil Production

[gogogodzilla]

I hadn't realized that all the foreign oil we import actually DOES NOT GET REFINED by our oil refineries. That only domestically produced oil needs to be refined in our refineries.

At least, that's what you imply by stating that "We could double the amount of domestic produced oil and not exceed the capacities of our refineries".

Wake up, our oil refineries do not meet the current US demand for gasoline. Until they do, gasoline prices will remain high even if we had 900 trillion barrels of free oil sitting on our docks.

[ChildOfThe60s]

could double the amount of domestic produced oil and not exceed the capacities of our refineries.

Sure. Because we have the capacity to refine xx barrels of oil per day. It makes not a wit of difference where the oil comes from.