I'm not real sure about this but i think if we would just make all our oil, stay in the USA instead of allowing the oil companys to export to the highest bidders we wouldn't need nearly as much import products. As someone mentioned earlier, if we allow more drilling off the coast of AK. they would just export to the highest bidder instead of keeping the oil here. We also have plenty of oil rigs not even pumping because the oil industry claims they can import cheaper than pumping and processing what we have. In my opinion there's just too many people in political positions making a killing on these high oil prices and don't want anything to change, because they have so much money it's not hurting them in the least, only us day to day citizens.
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