Oily Stuff

I agree with this article as to the Permian Basin's importance to the United States and our nation's long term energy future. We should have turned it into a National Park 15 years ago and learned to take care of it, nurture it, conserves its valuable contents for Americans,

Instead, in the name of money first we have burned off, wasted tens of billions of BTUs by flaring, drained limited groundwater resources frac'ing wells and cause earthquakes shoving produced water back into the ground. 

For what? 

For exports to foreign countries, below extraction costs, including the cost of necessary borrowing of money to drill all those wells. Does that sound like a National Energy Asset to you?