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LindsayRichards wrote:
... All of the shale oil goes to US refineries...
The USA (thus, it's taxpayers) own no refineries, they are privately owned and may sell their product wherever they wish. They are in no sense "US refineries" other than they happen to be located in the US.
... and it's value is contributed to the supply side of the world wide supply demand equation.
The product goes into the world-wide pool and is in NO sense US gas. Any gas we in the US want must then be bought out of that pool. Thus, "US refineries" do NOTHING for energy independence or increasing US supply.
... ND oil country has no unemployment, McDonald's pays $15/hour with a sign on bonus, wages are very high, and property values are spiking.
And when it goes bust (as ALL resource exploitation does, unless it's under rigid government control like Saudi Arabia, etc.) there will be widespread poverty, unemployment and general misery, beyond anything the local government can handle.
People are fleeing CA and going to ND.
Good riddance. They're just plugging up the roads anyhow. Let ND have all that mess. And they WILL get the mess.
ND is beautiful and will remain so.
ND will be destroyed by this "rape the earth" crowd just like every victim of resource exploitation in history.
