Oil

[HarleyDog]

(03-08-2022, 08:39 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yes, rather than our own production. Sometimes it can be cheaper to buy oil from other sources than refine our own plus the additional diplomatic benefits are an intangible asset that have to be considered. I may have been too implicit in my position on this in my previous post, but that was my intended statement. It can be more beneficial to buy oil rather than produce our own.

But at what cost? Yes, it may be cheaper, but if you have to lay in bed with thugs and evildoers, is it worth it? Isn't that a back door around our own regulations we enforce? If we demand our domestic partners produce oil under a strict set of environmental guidelines, why would we purchase from foreign producers who shun environmental concerns? Doesn't make sense to me. Add in the atrocities against humanity of countries we are willing to buy oil from and I say our government sucks. Cheaper oil should not qualify as a reason to throw your ethics out the window.