While I wish we could choose which side we were funding, the fact of the matter is that money is fungible, and oil is precious enough that even if we get all of ours from Canada, other nations will still use enough of it that the regimes we don’t like are still getting cash.
What we could do is produce our own – lowering the dependency on foreign sources, and perhaps even eventually becoming one of the nations competing with those tyrannies for the oil money. And yes, we do have the energy reserves to do so.
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