The immediate answer is to complete Keystone. That would end our imports from Venezuela and severely damage a Russian client which spreads the socialist gospel in south America. End the export law and use our surplus oil to end what’s left of OPEC’s control. The inventory quantities, which is used by traders to jack oil prices, once on the market will be reflected in the world price. That’s the fastest way to restrict cash flow to Russia and the Middle Eastern sponsors of terrorism.
In LNG and oil we have a potential economic big stick that can harm our enemies and kick up economic growth in this country at the same time.
And how would that help int this case? We would still have a surplus of sweet crude and a lack of refineries.
End the export law and use our surplus oil to end what’s left of OPEC’s control.
We don't have an oil surplus. Every barrel of oil we export has to be replaced by a barrel of import.
I don’t think we have enough refineries to handle all the different types of crude, do we? We haven’t built a new one in years; just upgraded the older ones, at great cost, IINM.
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=29&t=6
Problem with that is it would require our commie president to do something beneficial to the US and detrimental to the Ruskies....something that would set back his plan to unilaterally surrender!!!