Let's let private companies (many of them foreign) just frack the shit out of our land, poison our air and water, and sell our fucking oil to the highest bidder, as fast as they can possibly pump it out!
Wouldn't want to just, you know, keep it for US citizens use?!? Or maybe IN THE GROUND in case of future shortages, maybe?
So we've cranked up oil production by like 50% since like 8 years ago ... funny ... gas prices aren't actually lower, are they? And yeah, for the very short-term immediate future, the US COULD be independent. But we're not. And selling it to foreign countries ain't helping.
What did we try to tell you stupid wingnuts when you were CRYING about how if the US would get rid of 'regulations' we could have cheap gas, AND energy independence?
We told you ... BULLSHIT, because the fossil fuel industry is PRIVATE and they have ZERO REASON to accomplish either of your two imaginary 'outcomes'.
Sure enough, they are raping, and pillaging, and FUCKING US ALL.