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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by landemva on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:16PM (#30607104)
I will summarize those paragraphs - as long as USA can afford to export manufacturing pollution to poor countries that allow excess pollution, we should continue to have the pollution dumped over there.

I don't agree with that. I support pollution import duties to remove some of the economic advantage of dumping pollution over there.

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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by Spooky23 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:47PM (#30608357)
The big oil producers still mostly just pump.

The US exhausted fields in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio 100+ years ago and has depleted the big western fields as well - production in the US requires fracking.

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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by landemva on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:49PM (#30609025)
Yes, though still lots of oil in the western States. USA can be energy independent, and was just a couple years ago. The tech is cleaner than ever and laterals reduce pad impacts.
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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by Spooky23 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:35PM (#30617499)
I heard politicians bleating on about that, but my lying' eyes told me a different story.

My office during this period was next to an inland port and rail facility. Every day, hundreds of Canadian National Railway cars with explosive tar sands oil lumbered by to be loaded on ships bound for refineries.

High commodity prices drive expensive oil production. That includes fracked gas and oil and other "exotic" sources. An extended war in Ukraine will certainly trigger a domestic oil boom.

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Re:America produces enough oil to meet its needs, so why do ... by namdnay on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:48PM (#30607580)
Most oil isn’t extracted by fracking
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