Dave,
Do not Russia, Venezuela, Saudi etc meet there own domestic needs before selling into the international market? Thereby controlling the cost of fuel internally? I believe they do and so do many other petroleum producing countries. Those countries typically have nationally owned oil companies. I'm not saying that is what we need. A tweak to the laws concerning energy exports could be considered though. But by claiming energy independence and selling our resources into the international commodity market we are not exactly achieving the stated goal. I get the premise of increased supply lowers our cost but that is a long long way from what is being sold to the American public.

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