I have a suggestion -- stop trying to have government in every conceivable nook and cranny of economic activity. The only thing government has been good at is consistently and regularly proving the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Obama thinks it may give his Muslim buddies competition.
I'm usually a free-market advocate, but there's one compelling reason to keep this oil export ban in place. To me, it makes no sense to allow U.S. producers to sell a natural resource on the open market when the U.S. government is buying that same resource to supply a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. If crude oil is considered a strategic national resource, then it surely can't be expected to be treated the same way as any other commodity.