Posted on 01/01/2016 7:28:49 AM PST by Libloather
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"These refineries provide transportation fuels and home heating oil for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American families".
Upton wrote, lifting the ban may spur investment to expand the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port to allow for imports and exports, which would create "a two-way trading hub" that could shift global focus to Louisiana's Gulf Coast, making it a "global hub" for the industry.
There's consensus on at least one thing - most analysts agree we probably won't feel the effects of the end of the ban for a while, not even in the next year.
The U.S. produced about 9.39 million barrels per day on average in September 2015, down from an April peak of 9.59 million barrels per day.
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The radical enviro-greenies would have most of us living in high rise rabbit warrens, eating Soylent Green and traveling jammed in to gether in solar powered sardine cans.
Of course the high level greenies and politicians would still have gated estates, fleets of GMC Yukons and armed bodyguards.
The wackos are worried that the reality of supply and demand will work and increased global trade will prove to be good for everyone.
There will be no winners and losers. Capitalism is based on the concept of mutual benefit between voluntary buyer and seller.
Socialism is based on the religion that there is always a winner and a loser in every transaction.
Whether in boyfriend-girlfriend or bank-homeowner or Black-White there is always a winner and loser.
/Sarcasm OFF
If I was a foreign oil power, and I knew that the USA was or is a top oil producer, then I would look for weaknesses, any weakness by which the influence of US oil production could be neutered.
One weakness could be exploited by hiring environmental lobbyists to pressure Congress to curtail oil exports because it would harm the environment in developing countries. Another weakness would exploit a perception that oil exports would lead to expanded domestic drilling and therefore, increased environmental harm to the interior of the USA. Another weakness would exploit the fear that exporting oil would increase domestic oil prices. Another weakness would exploit absurd ties to man-made global warming.
All such weaknesses could be exploited by a legal or academic class who are equipped to fashion false arguments based in hysterical fears. All that is needed to put this class to work is money.
Who has the money? Two sources: the US Government and certain foreign powers. Of course, It would be smart of the foreign powers to prompt and compel the US Government to spend its own money to curb, neuter and demolish its own domestic oil industry and this would be most easily done by hiring top lawyer-lobbyists to craft the necessary false arguments to bring the whole business down.
Donald Trump is right. We are so stupid. We are so stupid as to produce the rope that we use to hang ourselves. We are stupid because we are trusting. We trust our elected leaders and ignore that they have bills to pay, campaigns to finance and that they are corruptible by accepting that a little corruption won’t do any harm, especially when the alternative is to be out-financed by political opponents who have no problem taking the money.
BTTT! Dig into a progressive/environmental organization’s structure and sooner or later you will be face to face with an enemy of this country and its people. Our whole opinion industry, media, academia, politics and entertainment, is full of Quislings ready to sell the rest of us out.
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