Originally Posted by
word302
The U.S. will never be energy independent simply because we don’t produce enough heavy crude. Most of what we get here is light sweet crude. North America independent would be possible but we’d have to build new or rework a good portion of our refineries.
Well we had a president that killed a major pipeline from Canada to push heavy crude to us.
It was determined more palatable to haul it on rail at an added carbon and actual cost because it feels more temporary than a pipeline. People’s feelings matter, a new pipeline is too long of a commitment to oil.