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To: DannyTN

You clearly don’t understand “fungible” markets or how distributorships function. And no, I don’t have the patience to splain it to you....


2 posted on 05/07/2013 11:04:18 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

On another day, he might be whining about our trade deficit.


4 posted on 05/07/2013 11:05:48 AM PDT by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
You clearly don’t understand “fungible” markets or how distributorships function. And no, I don’t have the patience to splain it to you..

I understand fungible markets quite well. The whole point of this article was that producing our oil won't make us energy independent because of our commitment to keeping international oil markets fungible.

We could tariff or ban exports of petroleum products and American produced oil would only be fungible within our borders. But we don't have the will to do that, for that would be disturbing our "Free trade" mantra.

12 posted on 05/07/2013 11:13:42 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: C. Edmund Wright
You clearly don’t understand “fungible” markets or how distributorships function. And no, I don’t have the patience to splain it to you..

I understand fungible markets quite well. The whole point of this article was that producing our oil won't make us energy independent because of our commitment to keeping international oil markets fungible.

We could tariff or ban exports of petroleum products and American produced oil would only be fungible within our borders. But we don't have the will to do that, for that would be disturbing our "Free trade" mantra.

13 posted on 05/07/2013 11:13:43 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: C. Edmund Wright

On the other hand having your oil supply (and other critical resources) close at hand is vital in the case of a war. I don’t see us ever being energy independent but I’d like to see our energy needs supplied from the new world.


74 posted on 05/07/2013 12:17:20 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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