I do not understand what you are trying to say. Our refineries could run at the same rate using more domestically produced oil and less foreign produced oil. Then the royalties, lease payments, jobs and taxes for the oil would be in the US rather than a foreign country.
Wake up, our oil refineries do not meet the current US demand for gasoline.
We currently import 10,577,000 barrels of oil a day. We currently import 1,225,000 barrels of gasoline per day. Which is the greater shortfall? I certainly agree we need more refinery capacity. But to stop drilling until refineries are built (as some have suggested here) is just insane. Oil fields are continually depleted and need to have new wells drilled just to stay even, let alone add capacity.
Your original post states that the US oil production is less than the US refinery production.
That leads the reader to think that there is no refinery shortage and also ignores the plain-as-day knowledge that US oil refineries also refining imported oil.