While we are close to the coast, Houston Texas is not offshore. This is talking about a rise in US jobs.
Would you like it better if this product was supplied by an OPEC nation? Would that be in our best interest?
At the same time, our petrochem domestic manufacturing is growing for the same production growth reasons.
It was sporting of you to help orient the thinking of the correspondent in Post No. 4; however, it appears what little he/she may know about the energy business (domestic, international or otherwise) is limited to what they see on the front of a gasoline pump.
We are shipping it to China and India for their industrial needs.
And the whole OPEC thing, people say “boycott them”, other countries (including Europe, China, and India) are going to buy them anyway.
I say eradicate the Islamonazis in the Middle East and then we don’t have to worry about fuel dollars funding international terrorism.