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Fill our storage first, then send to Europe. Winter isn’t here yet. Doesn’t seem that crazy.

Ukraine is embarrassing our geopolitical enemy to death for pennies. It would be silly to stop feeding them. This is a great opportunity.

If Americans don’t have the right to American energy resources, that’s a deficiency in our American system that needs to be fixed. Your jesting suggestions throughout this thread are, in my opinion, greatest possible arguments for a national energy company, or a heavy-handed national policy.

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I am not jesting.

You nor Biden have a right to say private companies, or Texas royalty owners, have to sell oil at a lower price than they would otherwise get because some people want to pay less.
It is not America’s oil.
How about blocking selling food internationally so that I can get cheap food?

And how do you think foreign countries are going to react to such a plan?

Since the US is moving toward being a net importer of petroleum products in 2022, I don’t see much hope for your plan anyway.

U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis.

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If interests within the energy market insist on acting as an impediment to energy security, there are options to reset the whole system.

Theoretically, we could open up all the federal land and sea to drilling but only to actors who will put American interests first. Tax and subsidy policies can be crafted to make energy security everyone’s best interest. Government can easily pick winners who don’t need to be begged to cooperate with efforts to secure American energy.

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Oil producers have been an impediment to nothing. If you want to find an impediment to our energy security you have no further to go than the way Biden drained our energy reserves for short term political gain.

We bring in some sort of oils that best fits our purposes and export others. On the whole, we are about equal in petroleum exports and imports. All your plan would do is get the wrong type of petroleum products in the wrong place.
And don’t think other countries are going to sit around doing nothing while we try to fix trade only to our benefit.

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Long term political gain. Absorbing the price shock of a commodity while dealing mortal wounds to an enemy is one of the best possible uses of a strategic reserve.

It’s not a plan, it’s a change of priorities. Americans can find a use for all of it.

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All of a sudden we are not thinking on an international scale or a local scale, but on a national scale…which works out to the Northeast takes the oil belonging to the South and West on the cheap, at their expense. Now why would that contribute to the division in the country?
What, you want to use the oil produced in the US and the oil imported from overseas? That is pure imagination. Our keeping the oil drilled in the US will just drive up the value of oil produced elsewhere. The Saudi’s are going to ship their oil to Europe, not here, when Europe will pay significantly more than we would. It’s still going to be a world wide market that we can’t control.
And suppose you put in price controls on oil produced in the US. You think producers are going to continue to produce if they can’t recover the expenses of production?
And again, while we’re trying to control international trade to benefit this country do you think those other countries, that are being harmed, aren’t going to come up with retaliatory plans of their own?

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National scale makes sense if national security is a priority.

China has already taken steps to firmly cement their domestic energy security. Americans are going to the mat for American companies leaving Americans lean in winter and hurricane season. That salty fixation with the northeast is bizarre.

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Imports approximate exports.

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The masters sure love it when the commons know their place though. :wink:

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We should be more like China.

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Build more windmills for your energy. Cape Cod and Martha’s Vinyard are excellent options.

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Done.

https://theconversation.com/us-approves-its-first-big-offshore-wind-farm-near-marthas-vineyard-its-a-breakthrough-for-the-industry-160747

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There . Good. That is how the North East needs to,take care of it’s energy needs, with clean reusable energy. They don’t need to steal oil from other areas of the country.

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Been a year, how many have they built?

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Did you notice the idiot leading the state department just sighed on to the Trump plan of selling liquid Nat gas to Europe…lol!

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Patience, grasshopper.

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None? Not an emergency to save the planet?

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Does Cal’s 6.30$ a gallon gas make people richer or poorer? And why are the dems trying to take away your energy choices? No gas cars, or nat gas appliances. That’s just weird!!!

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Wind turbines don’t just appear. Article says 2023 to begin delivering clean energy.

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What’s another year when we’ve only got what… 9 AOC years left?

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