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@BlueVeins The only reasonable solution is the US depending on its own oil

@owned Babe, that's objectively false; there's no law saying that we have to use oil in the first place. We can just use electricity and methane to power our automobiles, & there's a whole littany of cool ways to generate power for the grid. 🤷‍♂️ But even if that was the case, I've yet to see conservatives propose a single method of getting the US on exclusively domestic oil.

@BlueVeins The oil is not the issue. The refining capacity in the US is. The government has basically put the stop to any new development in refining capacities here. Add that to the attempts to cancel domestic drilling in west Texas and New Mexico, and the market will react exactly as it is doing.

@BlueVeins Use methane? Seems that methane is not very popular now nor when the Obama administration held power.
And as for new electric vehicles, supposedly a replacement battery(ies) might well be half the original cost of these electric vehicles.

@3Dogmatic That's not the issue babe, the US has never refined its own oil because our refineries are built for heavy, sour oil -- which is produced abroad -- and the oil that we mine is heavy and sweet. Also, most of our oil is found near the Mississippi River & Gulf of Mexico, which makes it a lot cheaper to export by ship.

@soar2newhighs So let's make it popular. 🤷‍♂️ We're collectively sitting on an enormous gold mine of potential methane in the form of sewage, food waste, & other bio-waste. All we really need is to set up the infrastructure to use anaerobic decomposition to extract methane, which farms already do, and the technology to run trucks & buses on methane is already in use in some places.

As for electric cars, some have batteries that run as low as $2,500; what it comes down to is consumers choosing products that they can afford. Electric cars are also a lot cheaper to run once you've got the up-front cost out of the way, only a little over a third of the costs as a gas-powered car. The only big problem at this point is range, & the obvious solution to that is to just build more charging ports. They can even be retrofitted onto regular-ass parking spaces with relative ease.

@3Dogmatic Finally someone who gets the biggest part of the problem. (Even the Saudis are telling the US not to draw down the Strategic Stockpile by 75% or more. Not being very "strategic".