Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Ideally we should be selling refined oil to the Chinese and employing our own people to do the refining but then again maybe the only people who have the expertise to refine oil now, are the Chinese, just like they suddenly became the only people who knew how or could be taught to mine coal.

Got about 50 billion kicking around to build enough refinery ability to handle all the oil that is going to be exported*?
*Between all the pipelines not just NG
Anyway adding another $30 a barrel or so to the profit made on the oil is a good start. Better to build the pipeline and ship it unrefined than to not build the pipeline out of spite for not getting the dream deal, and keep getting paid way less for what we will train out anyway.
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I can salute the native leadership; Got to put up a big fight to ensure they get as big a cut as possible.