Bringing back the oil export ban will penalize the domestic industry by depriving them of a market open to all other global producers. Global price will go up but domestic prices will not come down. We will still have to compete with other consuming countries for available global reserves.
Because domestic producers will lose access to this market, it will cause the economic destruction of a huge amount of domestic energy infrastructure, such as export terminals and pipelines constructed to export Eagle Ford and Permian oil. Domestic producers are already having a difficult time finding pipelines to get their production to market. This will only get worse. So by not allowing the market to efficiently allocate assets, the government will penalize US producers and punish US consumers, all at the same time.
Bingo!
so they are going to stop selling off our oil reserves ?
Dumbass premise.
If anything that they did lowered gas prices right now, it would be a concession that “Putin’s Price Hike” was all BS.
No, US oil prices pegged to the international market will not go down by limiting exports. It will probably cause a rise in crude oil prices.
Elimination of market disruption and the volatility of Xiden administration policies would stem the rise...
...but it ain’t gonna happen.
What is the definition of insanity?
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.🙄
The USA shut down over a million bbl per day in refinery capacity during the demand drop off during the pandemic. Those refinery that were shut are not coming back online. Most were disassembled and the ones that were not it’s too expensive to bring them back to working order. The limit is not crude oil the USA is exporting oil there is plenty of supply the bottleneck is the refinery capacity and that is a structural problem. There is no drill baby drill out of this bottleneck. We need to import at least a million bbl of REFINED products to fill that shortfall.cutting off oil exports would just raise the prices of imported refined products more. Worse would be to ban the export of refined products as the other producers would follow suit cutting us off from imports. We have a net import flow of refined products gasoline and jet fuels. We export diesel because Europe used mostly diesel they have a surplus of gasoline. The short term solution is to subsidize the opening of shut down refineries the oil companies nor bank investors will fund it there is no long term upside. Then get the EPA to approve expansion at existing plants with modern equipment again this would need subsidy wall street nor the VC capital industry is funding fossil fuels anymore that’s just the world we live in.