Bill: (And I apologize for the snarky-sounding last line I wrote earlier)

You said all we have to do is announce we are not exporting oil. Who's the 'we'?

If I read you right, you're talking about voluntary measures. But it seems to me that a company would be immediately susceptible to shareholder lawsuits if they "did the right thing".

So if an oil company "does the right thing", the shareholders revolt. If they're ORDERED to do it by the government, we get the cries of "Marxism!".

There's got to be a way to break this logjam.