Remember drill baby drill was about energy indpendence?

[Omaha Steve]

How does exporting make us independent?

12/09/14 03:56 PM EST GOP lawmaker sees 'excellent chance' to lift crude-oil export ban: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/226506-house-republican-bill-to-lift-oil-export-ban-has-excellent-chance


01/08/15 08:33 AM EST White House doesn't feel pressure to lift oil export ban, adviser says: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/228873-white-house-doesnt-feel-pressure-to-lift-oil-export-ban-adviser

[unblock]

1. it makes us independent because if foreign producers were to jack up prices,

then domestic producers, being the wonderfully generous and patriotic people that they are widely known and admired to be, would forego selling on the world market at ginormous profits and would instead sell the energy in america at artificially lower prices.

[Orsino]

2. It was mostly just conditioning...

...training the rubes to cheer and do anything the oil barons say.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. It doesn't, but "energy independence" is an unachievable pipe-dream anyway.

the US can be "energy independent" if it reduces its oil consumption by nearly half. Since that isn't happening any time soon, the US won't be "energy independent".