I am talking about not putting restriction towards drilling additional wells and reducing our imports.
If oil companies can sell their oil produced in another country for a higher dollar amount in a foriegn nation, than they can in the US, that is were they will invest there money.
And the end result is more imports into the US and less jobs in the US with the export ban.
I am arguing in the weeds here, I realize, since I agree that the ban is (and always was) a dumb idea, but I just don't see the effects occurring that you expect. A commodity price is set by the open market - even if a particular barrel is in a restricted market. That's why the ban is so dumb in the first place.