> It's just cheaper that way; while not all oil is alike, crude oil is fungible enough to make this feasible. If it really was cheaper that way, there would b

> It's just cheaper that way; while not all oil is alike, crude oil is fungible enough to make this feasible. If it really was cheaper that way, there would be no need to intervene. But maybe some of the expense is caused by regulations which don't make sense. Could I get you to consider repealing the Jones Act so that it's legal to ship oil between different ports in the US using tankers? (Technically it doesn't make the tankers illegal on the face of it. It just requires them to be US built, owned, and crewed by citizens, like all other use of boats in the US. There are no tankers built in the US today; there aren't many boats built at all. Puerto Rico and Hawaii suffer in particular as a result must import key supplies from outside the US.) Yeah, you'd still be burning oil to move oil, but it's not like sending it in trains and pipelines is free either.