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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (16 children)

correct me if I'm wrong, but the United States doesn't even have oil refineries that are capable of making gasoline out of American oil? like we need the type of oil that the middle East has, so we're constantly trading oil back and forth even though we have plenty of it

I think I've heard this is true. something about politicians wanting to look environmentalist and therefore preventing the building of any more refineries

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The lack of investment in the types of oil refineries to refine US oil domestically isn't as much for optics purposes. But that relative to the amount of investment required to build new refineries to compete with the current foreign ones isn't a good return on investment relative to the up front cost and the existing profits of the current arrangement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the government should at least subsidize a couple so in the event of an apocalypse we can make our own gasoline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This sounds like a good idea. I wonder why it hasn't happened. Maybe lobbyists have prevented politicians from doing so so that the USA is dependent on countries with appropriate refineries, which protects the income and security of the other country using the USA's GDP and military.

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