Riddle me this you financially gifted types

[nixer]

Case in point. In the sixty's we were something like 60% energy independent. The fed instituted some serious regulations on drilling and production here. Now we are something like 90% energy dependent on foreign oil. Now, instead of us putting our monies into our oil, we are sending it overseas, so the money that could come from that and put money back into our budget, is going elsewhere.

actually our oil isnt as good as the oil we get from the middle east ours is much dirtyer than theirs so it would cost more to refine ours