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Dean Gallea's avatar

In terms of 100% domestication of our petroleum industry, one thing we are reportedly short on is refining capacity for certain fractions such as solvents used in semiconductor production. For these, as I understand it, we export light crude and import the produced materials. But there's no reason we can't build out our custom refining capacity here, circumventing any international price pressures.

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Maverick's avatar

Probably because the greedy bastards can make more green by exporting it? Same with our trees in Canada - we too have plentiful supply, but we get the shitty stuff here at top dollar, while they ship the good wood to foreign countries. Go figure.

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