That's funny, because I'm pretty staunchly anti-war. Energy self-sufficiency actually means there is zero reason for us to be there.
You can't just switch out one type for another.
No, but you can build infrastructure around them in the long term. I'm not asking "why don't the Americans and their allies start pumping more oil immediately?", I'm asking "why haven't the Americans been building their infrastructure around allied oil since the 70s?" Apparently, despite being at war with them for over 50 years, Iran has had control of their most vital resource (and never crashed them, until now) but the Americans never bothered to diversify their supply chain?
When prices rise, you don't earn more money unless you have stocks in Big Oil
Well, I actually work for a living, so a booming energy sector means employment opportunities for people like me. Not just the (well paying) jobs in the actual industry, but homebuilding, personal services, secondary markets for goods, they all benefit. Canada has seen the full closure of many oil extraction projects since the prices of oil have fallen; it may be a "world market", but the world only needs so much and the Americans have decided that they'll put their money into the ME's reserves.
Unless you are a petrostate, then higher oil prices are bad for you
Which Canada and Venezuela both are.
That's funny, because I'm pretty staunchly anti-war. Energy self-sufficiency actually means there is zero reason for us to be there.
You can't just switch out one type for another.
No, but you can build infrastructure around them in the long term. I'm not asking "why don't the Americans and their allies start pumping more oil immediately?", I'm asking "why haven't the Americans been building their infrastructure around allied oil since the 70s?" Apparently, despite being at war with them for over 50 years, Iran has had control of their most vital resource (and never crashed them, until now) but the Americans never bothered to diversify their supply chain?
When prices rise, you don't earn more money unless you have stocks in Big Oil
Well, I actually work for a living, so a booming energy sector means employment opportunities for people like me. Not just the (well paying) jobs in the actual industry, but homebuilding, personal services, secondary markets for goods, they all benefit.
Unless you are a petrostate, then higher oil prices are bad for you
Which Canada and Venezuela both are.
That's funny, because I'm pretty staunchly anti-war. Energy self-sufficiency actually means there is zero reason for us to be there.
You can't just switch out one type for another.
No, but you can build infrastructure around them in the long term. I'm not asking "why don't the Americans and their allies start pumping more oil immediately?", I'm asking "why haven't the Americans been building their infrastructure around allied oil since the 70s?" Apparently, despite being at war with them for over 50 years, Iran has had control of their most vital resource (and never crashed them, until now) but the Americans never bothered to diversify their supply chain?
When prices rise, you don't earn more money unless you have stocks in Big Oil
Well, I actually work for a living, so a booming energy sector means employment opportunities for people like me. Not just the (well paying) jobs in the actual industry, but homebuilding, personal services, secondary markets for goods, they all benefit.
That's funny, because I'm pretty staunchly anti-war. Energy self-sufficiency actually means there is zero reason for us to be there.
You can't just switch out one type for another.
No, but you can build infrastructure around them in the long term. I'm not asking "why don't the Americans and their allies start pumping more oil immediately?", I'm asking "why haven't the Americans been building their infrastructure around allied oil since the 70s?" Apparently, despite being at war with them for over 50 years, Iran has had control of their most vital resource (and never crashed them, until now) but the Americans never bothered to diversify their supply chain?