‘The United States can call itself energy independent because its exports…exceed its imports. But the imports—the oil that Trump says the country doesn’t “need”—are crucially important for meeting the particular requirements of US refineries’
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09042026/iran-energy-shock-tests-us-dominance/
‘United States, despite its high production, is fully integrated into a global market in upheaval…so we’re going to pay the same high oil prices everybody else is paying because we’re competing for the same oil’
Unfortunately, if you listen to a lot of the mainstream conservative commentators who seem to be actually making public policy in the US, they have no idea how ANY of this works.
For years you've been hearing them say things like, "Tell me, Why use THEIR oil when we have OURS!" but they never wait to hear answers about different types of oil.
Sadly, these folks are in control, and it shows.
