Sighlass wrote:
"I doubt there is a produced here, stay here rule."
I've posted here about that before.
All energy produced in the United States ... should STAY in the United States.
(I'll make an exception for sharing with Canada).
If we don't need it "now", future citizens WILL need it.
For every shipload of LNG that goes to Europe, that means less here (during a time of coming shortages), and that will only corrupt our domestic markets and push prices upward.
Same for coal and petroleum products.
Our "energy markets" should be a "closed system" between the USA and Canada, insofar as that's possible. What the Germans have to pay Russia for natural gas SHOULD NOT determine what WE pay, here, from our own domestic production sources.
Let the rest of the world freeze. (and I mean that)
We don't have to, if we don't want to.