Changing the subject, eh? I thought we were talking about public, not private.
I thought we had exhausted the subject, just like the soil if you mine it growing crops.
And no, the subject was using oil inside the borders of the US. Much if which is privately owned. And the rest which is currently owned by the collective should be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
You dragged the conversation into agriculture but ignored the rest of my post. Should we conserve our reserves of iron ore and let others deplete theirs first? Or copper, or uranium? All the minerals we mine inside our borders?