Rigby5
Diamond Member
Energy independence deals with supply, not with price. If the world market price for Brent Crude is $100 a barrel, that's what the oil producers in Texas will charge the domestic consumers..
If nationalized, then US domestic price would be independent of world prices.
That is why almost every country that produces oil in the world has nationalized.
Why give away profit to private companies for no reason except to make gasoline more expensive in the US?