[Trumpinator]

How about ditching the EPA and spending it on American Oil? We produce more than the Saudis. Of all the countries we import from we import the most from Canada.

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When I hear statements like this I wonder if people know anything about the oil business. Do I know a lot? No. But I think I am on sound footing to know that American oil seems to cost more to extract than Saudi oil. At a certain dollar level American oil does not pay.

[Smokin' Joe]

I have worked in the American oil business for 35 years. You decide if it is cheaper to export billions of dollars to the Saudis or spend it here at home, where it gets spent multiple times on everything from drill pipe to vehicles to the wife's new shoes, and then those people spend it, and then those people spend it, etc.

I know the oil patch, I may not be an economist, but people came up here to North Dakota from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and from as far away as Liberia and Nigeria to work in the US oil patch. That money got spent, mostly in the US. The local economy boomed, and that reached from North Dakota to Texas, to industries in PA and California.

Spend it there (Saudi, etc.) and some one will buy a few slave girls and a silver (not the color, the metal) Mercedes.

You tell me what's better for America.