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You used a simile, but didn't prove your point with facts. Facts are such annoying things to leftists. The oil pumped from the interior of the US goes by pipeline to refineries, no matter the owner of the fields. Close in offshore, the same. Further out, but within the 200 mile US economic exclusionary zone, tankers are used (Gulf). Please show me those tankers going to foreign nations. Their routes are filed and controlled. We don't want a ship showing up unexpectedly with a nuke in her bow.
Actually, it was an analogy, not a simile, and I even admitted it wasn't a great one. That is why I posted the article from Consumer Energy Report. It stated clearly what my analogy was trying to get at:
"With thousands upon thousands of individual players in the global oil market, we all purchase oil from the same exact global pool regardless of where it is produced. Thus, the market is out of the control of any single government or oil company, even Saudi Aramaco."
"Totally ignoring the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act of 1973, which makes it illegal to ship Alaskan oil to anywhere except the US.
http://www.eoearth.org/article..._1973,_United_States"
There was NOTHING in that article stating that the Trans-Alaska Pipeline act prohibited the selling of oil to foreign countries. As a matter of fact, here is an article about BP getting oil from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline:
http://www.businessinsider.com...pipeline-leak-2011-1And BECAUSE oil goes into a "global pool", it doesn't matter how much oil we drill here in the US, it has no bearing on the PRICE of oil. Here's a blurb from Wiki on how, even at the start of the pipeline, prices remained out of our control:
Although the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System began pumping oil in 1977, it did not have a major immediate impact on global oil prices.[110] This is partly because it took several years to reach full production and partly because U.S. production outside Alaska declined until the mid-1980s.[111] The Iranian Revolution and OPEC price increases triggered the 1979 energy crisis despite TAPS production increases.