[thackney]

We need more refineries and a similar ban on the export of finished product.

How do you think that would work? We already refine more product than we use ourselves. You want a private company to spend billions of dollars to build another refinery while you want to restrict them from selling the product?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

OK then, we don’t need more refineries, except for backup when one goes out of service.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You want a private company to spend billions of dollars to build another refinery while you want to restrict them from selling the product?

Actually I don't care about restricting them so much as requiring them to charge the foreigners twice as much as Americans for transportation fuels.

Same with pharmaceuticals.