[dila813]

Is it possible that the export ban is a violation of the NAFTA agreement?

[Sacajaweau]

Obama says its one of the reasons he won't sign Keystone.

He hasn't yet figured out that we're refiners!! We import oil, refine it and ship it out.

He says he doesn't want anything shipped out.

[econjack]

It just amazes me that a bunch of bureaucrats can sit on their butts in DC and think they are capable of managing a bazillion transactions per second. The stupidity of it all comes crashing home when you hear the President, who has killed off shore oil leases, fought the Keystone Pipeline project, taken ANWAR off the table, enabled the EPA to just about kill the coal industry, say:

American citizens are experiencing the lowest energy prices in almost a decade. You're welcome.

Just how stupid does this hunk of hubris think we are? The American voters in this Republic are lucky they have enough brainpower to fog a mirror.

[Da Bilge Troll]

While I agree that the ban should be repealed, it’s effect is not as great as one might believe. Any domestic production consumed domestically is oil not imported. It’s effect on the world market is about the same either way - unless we begin to produce a surplus of our own, that is.

[PGR88]

Do the same with the Jones Act for shipping.

[catfish1957]

DO IT!!!!

That one act would magically turn OPEC from a cartel into just another energy trade group.