All that is well and good, but there is still something that resounds throughout the populace: keep American crude oil for American refineries, for American consumption. Excess over domestic need/demand should be available for export.
Granted, the current wholly contrived market (due to fedgov intervention and regulation) is nothing but an impediment to production and delivery of petroleum products at all levels. As an exercise in the failures of government market regulation and control it would be difficult to find a better example than crude oil production, refining and delivery.
We have spent billions upgrading our own refineries for many to run on cheaper, heavy oil.
Importing cheap oil while exporting expensive light oil makes sense, both for American jobs and our trade balance.
Excess over domestic need/demand should be available for export.
We already import more oil than we use and export the surplus refined product.
the current wholly contrived market (due to fedgov intervention and regulation) is nothing but an impediment to production and delivery of petroleum products at all levels.
Yes, that is a good description of the oil export ban. What conservative principles are upheld by wanting the government telling private mineral owners and publicly traded companies who they are allowed to sell their product to?
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