It is in the government’s best interest to keep oil cheap, but it may not be in private companies best interest to keep oil prices low.
So I’d probably support a government built coal to oil infrastructure to keep oil prices stabilized and ensure a steady domestic supply.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
