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Originally Posted by blankall
If I'm the USA I continue building the infrastructure for oil production regardless of profitability. The USA invests a huge amount of money into the middle east and the fallout from from spikes in oil prices. That money would be better spent giving workers jobs to produce infrastructure. Much like the did building highways a few decades ago.
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That basically involves a bailout of oil companies so that they can keep operating in unprofitable conditions. I'll give you one guess as to how the American (and Canadian) people would react to such a policy.