Given all the "drill baby drill" reichwing rhetoric and the Keystone XL pipeline frenzy... this article just made me go... well... WTF!
In a first, gas and other fuels are top US export
Excerpt:
Measured in dollars, the nation is on pace this year to ship more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than any other single export, according to U.S. Census data going back to 1990. It will also be the first year in more than 60 that America has been a net exporter of these fuels.
Just how big of a shift is this? A decade ago, fuel wasn't even among the top 25 exports. And for the last five years, America's top export was aircraft.
The trend is significant because for decades the U.S. has relied on huge imports of fuel from Europe in order to meet demand. It only reinforced the image of America as an energy hog. And up until a few years ago, whenever gasoline prices climbed, there were complaints in Congress that U.S. refiners were not growing quickly enough to satisfy domestic demand; that controversy would appear to be over.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
I'd like to give you some insightful analysis... but frankly I'm just too (if you'll pardon the expression) FRACKIN' speechless!