There are definitely infrastructure and refining issues with being truly energy independent. Here is what I don't understand. We have the answer to all of this in our back yard. It's not oil long term. It's not electric vehicles, solar or wind in the short term. There is a transitional energy that I thought was going to be a larger player when EOM bought XTO. It's natural gas. Sure, we don't have filling stations for vehicles, but most city buses run on natural gas or a derivative. The cost to transition vehicles to run on natural gas is relatively low. It is cheap, clean and affordable. But like everything else in society and politics, each side decides to take a stance on either the far right or the far left (oil vs. electric), and fucking ignores the middle ground easier solution, thus fucking the middle and lower class. Oil is dirty and spills are a true environmental disaster (I'm in the OG industry). Electric vehicles require raping land to get to the required minerals to build batteries. Natural gas is the solution.