On 08 Mar 2022, paul lee said the following...
 pl> Joe Biden, DO YOUR PART.
 pl> 
 pl> Allow THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE TO FLOW - that would allow for 800M barrels
 pl> a day to flow; while we are losing 650M a day that we [used to] buy from
 pl> Russo. Allow oil DRILLING ON FEDERAL LAND; allow our U.S. oilmen TO DIG
 pl> ANYWHERE THEY CAN across this nation!
 pl> DON'T BEG IRAN DICTATORS that will end up creating more Putin's,
 pl> solidify your weakness and fund MORE nukes!
 pl> DO sit down with Mexico, Canada and create a plan for NORTH AMERICA.

That won't solve the problem. For one, it wouldn't be ready in time.

Secondly, have you ever wondered why we both import *and* export oil? You'd
think that if we made enough to export some, we'd be energy-independent,
right? But we're not energy-independent, and we certainly weren't under Trump.
We may at times be net-energy-independent, which means we export more than we
import, but there's quite a bit more to energy independence than just
counting barrels of oil.

There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that not all oil is the same.
"Sweet crude" is one such type of which you may have heard, "sweet" being an
official designation for petroleum with less than 0.5% sulfur content. We have
lots of some kinds, and not enough of others, so we trade. And the second is
the market. It's counterintuitive, but sometimes it's less expensive to
import oil than to drill it here. It's not as simple as drill into the ground
and get some oil.

The Keystone Pipeline isn't going to do what you think it will.

Jeff.

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