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Because we need that oil as a military reserve for the coming wars with asia.
In the slow wars of the future, when we are all fighting to the death over the last oil, the last water, and the last topsoil, that oil is the energy reserve that will let us hold off the super-populations of asia.
Much smarter to buy it on the world market, and much smarter still to start moving to the post-oil economy and technology.
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