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I'm not okay with subsidies and I said so. If you can't read, that is your misfortune. When Trump was in, we were a net exporter. The only reason any foreign oil was bought then was due to market mismatch among demand, availability of crude, and refining capacity. You are not opposed to coal, oil, or natural gas providing the electricity for your EVs, so your disparagement is hypocritical.
Can you set up a refinery in your backyard? I can and have set up a working solar array on my roof.
Let's talk energy independence and see who wins
When someone is getting there ass kicked in an argument they often try to put words in others mouths. It's called strawman fallacy. You have no idea what I'm opposed to other than paying foreign countries for oil.... Which will always have to do.
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I can't set up a refinery in my back yard, nor can I set up a solar cell factory (complete with poisonous chemicals). I can have a producing wellhead in my back yard (I've seen them in California), and it works at night and during cloudy weather. Your rooftop solar array will produce pipsqueak power. My children in Zambia need to rely on solar power to get them through the "load shedding," but they are finding their system needs to be replaced or augmented, and this is after several years of use. Africa, by the way, has plenty of sunlight, but they are still very limited in what they can do with what they can get.
We didn't need to buy foreign oil at the outset, and it is possible (proof by having done it) that we can be better than self-sufficient.
Kick away. And while you are at it, let's get rid of the subsidies.
We have 50 years of oil left.... In the world.
I'm sure the price will stay reasonable up until the end too. Eye roll.emoji
We can make gasoline from coal, or from natural gas, or from water and any carbonaceous material. The estimated reserves depend on exploration and the improvement of methods of extraction (e.g., fracking). The end point is far out, and some claim that it is a naturally replenishing substance, not "fossil" at all. It may "run out" but not soon, and not without alternatives.