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The US is the largest oil producer in the world, how can’t not have enough for itself? But if that will always be the case, then why did the US never invest in alternative modes of transportation and in EVs and charging infrastructure?
The thing is that you have different grades of oil, and US refineries aren’t actually geared towards the type of oil the US produces.
The thing is that you have different grades of oil
This I knew.
and US refineries aren’t actually geared towards the type of oil the US produces.
This I didn’t know and doesn’t make sense to me why it would be the case. I expected US refineries to be optimized for US crudes. “Drill baby drill” has been the rallying cry for the Republican Party for nearly two decades now. At no point did I ever hear them say “Refine baby refine” though.
mainly cause they’ve been running a global empire and it didn’t matter where the inputs came from, everything is optimized for profit rather than resilience
