“How about we sell what we need HERE cheap....”
The great thing about America is that you are free to do that.
You could open the TLI Oil Company.
All you would need to do is find a spot where you think there could be oil, lease the land, spend maybe 20 to 50 million drilling a well, extract said oil from the ground, transport you oil to the refinery that you buy for a billion dollars and then transport your finished product to your market and sell it Here cheap at your TLI Gas Stations which will cost around two million dollars each.
“All you would need to do is find a spot where you think there could be oil, lease the land, spend maybe 20 to 50 million drilling a well, extract said oil from the ground, transport you oil to the refinery that you buy for a billion dollars and then transport your finished product to your market and sell it Here cheap at your TLI Gas Stations which will cost around two million dollars each.”
That is a fine argument, just as long as your oil company isn’t pumping that oil off public lands.
In that case the public should have a say on exporting it.
Nobody is talking about nationalizing the oil companies, but if we keep getting hosed on gas prices you can bet your ass they will be!