hdgreene: Instead of $60 a barrel, make that $80 to $90 a barrel for:

1) any and all
2) crude oil
3) or similar refineable substance
4) produced in the United States
5) or contiguous states
6) with price guaranteed for 30 to 35 years.

Each of those 6 steps has its own importance.
Put them all together and there is more than enough financial incentive to steamroller
obstruction and for us to produce a sizeable
surplus within 5 years or less. Price at the pump will retreat quite a bit but remain high enough to discourage prolifigate consumption.

Evan: This beats the pants off of an oil tariff.

With Uncle Sam not only being petroleum independent but capable (again) of exporting,
other folks are going to have to clean up their act in order to stay in business at all.

The danger point? Somebody wants to go to war, including nuking the US or threatening to do so, to keep us and others dependent upon statist/religious whims.

The solution? SDI. And I strongly suggest that Star Wars be followed with orbiting
strategic bombardment systems relying primarily on kinetic kill projectiles. That will remind quite a few people of their proper station in the correct order of things.