It’s a world market. If China and Japan pay $200 - $300 per bbl, so will everyone else. If we are producing another 5 million barrels a day when it hits $200 (hopefully sometime in the very distant future) that will be $1 billion a day less that we would be buying from Russia, Venezuela, Iran, etc. It doesn’t matter how much we conserve, or what alternatives we come up with, we will not stop importing oil in our lifetimes (and the world will not run out either). One of our objectives should be to produce more and sell more of what we have.

If we don’t claim some of the Arctic resources, Russia will simply take it all and sell it to us. Maybe Obama could claim it as the 58th state

Very little Alaskan oil leaving in super tankers from Valdez comes to the USA.

Can you cite your source?

According to Trans Alaska Pipeline Act (as amended) that action is prohibited without federal approval.

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less than 7% is exported and that goes to Canada and Mexico.

Although the law was changed by Clinton after strenuous pushes by Cato Institute and heritage Fund in 1994 to allow exports, it has slow come back down in the years since 9/11.

There is quite a bit of Alaskan heavy crude exported to the southern hemisphere during our summer. This includes heating oils, asphalts and coke.

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