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Political grandstanding.
As the numbers show, oil exports are only a fraction of oil imports, so it's not like we're robbing Peter to pay Paul. The article's title says "exporting US oil" and the first paragraph refers to "crude oil prices" but the substance of the article refers to "gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels as well as other petroleum products," which is a much broader category of refined products. We import a raw material, turn it into a product, and either sell it domestically or export it. Sounds like American manufacturing.
Is Ron Wyden against manufacturing? Perhaps he will want a list of American furniture companies selling wooden chairs and tables. We import a lot of trees from Canada, don't we?*
* Yes, the answer is $30.6 billion in lumber and wood in the rough since 2000. That's not counting plywood and woodpulp.
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