“This wrong headed approach leaves us vulnerable to people who want to play games and mess with the market, not to mention those who are our enemies and who want to see our down fall.”
So you admit that games are being played and the market is being manipulated?
As for refining. Mexico is wide open, I’m sure any one of the big oil companies could get a refinery built right across the border......if they wanted to that is.
My point has been not that this is not occurring, my point is that we have been so irresponsible with managing our energy needs in the US that we have made ourselves vulnerable to market manipulators and tyrants. That is just foolish.
If there are people messing with the market and it can be proven, have at it. But “getting the evil oil companies” and “windfall profits taxes” and "its a conspiracy" - those things are not solutions to the problem. Increase the supply, simplify the market, encourage investment to build refineries, let the market work and trust me, the market manipulators will go find another sucker.
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