Conserve U.S. Oil- Keep the Ban on Oil Exports

Since the terrible Carter years when the Arab and OPEC oil embargo made plain the scarcity of U.S. oil reserves the Congress has banned exports of remaining U.S. oil. That policy should remain in place even while perfidious politicians bought and paid for by global oil seek to kill the ban and punch holes in the reserved remaining buckets of domestic oil to let it leak out abroad. It is a viscous loss of industrial life blood that lets American plastic manufactures grow keeping the diminishing lamp of hope for a healthy and balanced economy without debt from falling into the ash heap of NPR story broadcasting.

Global oil might like to break the legs of America's remaining oil reserves so the nation could pay dearly in the future when oil prices rise. A decade or two may seem distant now, yet as they grow closer and the future past is like those objects in the rear view mirror that may be closer than you think, so becomes the future when the world's oil lay within the dar al harb and the dar al Islam.

It is true that Alaska has a few oil fields with potential to fuel U.S. gas guzzling for a year or two at full production. Those fields are located in areas of endangered species habitat and critical marginal areas that should be kept as anti-global warming thermal reserves. High arctic industrial and carbon monoxide exhaust is one of the most efficient ways to accelerate the demise of planetary health vis. human habitat and create desertification of the Midwest with interminable drought.

Responsible politicians should put away their hatred of U.S. oil reserves that make them seek to rid the nation of it as if it were some sort of disease better inflicted on foreign banks. U.S. oil reserves can be safely contained, as might nuclear waste (what ever happened to that federal nuclear waste storage project), deep underground until the time is right to use it for some constructive means in the future decades or centuries from today.The better place to dispose of fossil fuel emissions isn’t the atmosphere or sea-that much is certain. Jobs can be created with ecological economic and value theory change innovations to let capitalism serve the public interest better in the U.S.A.