Reply #48: but...from the same article

[MiJaMu]

But many energy experts say oil and petroleum products are traded globally, and it may make economic sense to export gasoline refined along the U.S. Gulf Coast to Latin America and import European-refined gasoline to U.S. East Coast markets.

When will people wake up and realize there is no such thing as breaking our dependence on foreign oil. Any politician who claims to have such a plan is ignorant or deceiving us. Oil is a global commodity. Oil companies are global corporations. News flash: we live on a globe!

America makes goods for export and buys goods from other countries. Oil is just another resource (like iron, fish, corn, etc.) that we trade on the global market. And high prices will simply open the door for other competing energy technologies to emerge.

So when you see the price of oil go up, don't complain. Be happy that its another nail in the coffin of the oil industry energy monopoly. They are in their death throes. Let them moan.