MFW its somehow cheaper to ship *oil* around the world to be refined

could be if you account for employee salary differences and number of workers required. In India a coal miners salary is 34,000 INR and that would be considered a real risky job in the developed world and cost way more per person. US coal miner salary is around 52,564 USD -71,500 per year.

Cheap Russian oil for everyone.

turning crude into something useful is on the same level of difficulty as turning sand into microchips. you guys could probably make your own gas with 20th century tech, but all the other shit that comes out of oil would be wasted without advanced infrastructure

Why shit up your backyard when you can shit up a backyard that is, tbf, already being shitted up. Both literally and figuratively, lol

American refineries aren't set up to process American shale oil, so the American oil gets exported to other countries, while America imports foreign oil to process it at home. Meaning that, while America is energy independent on paper, in practice it isn't.

LMAO it use to be our job to refine oil for people because we had a surplus of refineries.

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