HeyBub wrote:

Furthering the goal of increased domestic production to diminish reliance on
foreign hostile regimes is kinda silly in that most of our "foreign" oil
comes from Canada, Mexico, and Nigeria.

Who considers Nigeria to be much of a friend of USA?

They are ruled (by not that great a majority) by a nominally-Christian
extremely-corrupt bunch that, among other things, makes Nigeria's #2
export and America's most-noted import from Nigeria being scams as noted
in all-too-much notable e-mail spam.

As for second place faction in Nigeria, that is fundamentalist Muslims
so backwardly fundamentalist that it took foreign embarassment effort to
stop them from executing a rape victim for adultery.

- Don Klipstein )