Forgive my total ignorance on the topic of oil. I live in south carolina and I live in one of the two states that will run out of diesel fuel this week. Which basically means that were going to be one of the two states that will start this great famine that is suppose to hit us. Anyway, I have had this question lingering for a long while now and I hope this is the correct place to find the answer.
My question is
Why are states having to ask the federal government for the fuel. We have states with their own independent lands where they have their own state constituents. Why can't states that have oil give oil companies the permission to drill as they please and sell to the states directly? Why couldn't the states that have the oil make a deal with the states that have the oil refineries and they both benefit. The federal government is doing everything it can to insure that people will be ruined and at war with one another- come starvation and total poverty. I don't understand why it is up to the government to relegate their nonsense and bullsh*t down our throats creating the most and worst possible outcome. Sorry my opinions and discernment is in the way but I don't understand where most states laws fall in the production and purchase of oil. It just strikes me that if the states were really concerned and willing to do what it takes for the citizens therein, then why wouldn't the states communicate amongst themselves to see if they could form a cooperative that would help keep people moving, warm, fed, and producing. It is pretty clear that what's coming is going to be worse than we could ever imagine and when people are hungry they act in unspeakable ways add the other variables and there is no telling. People under the bolsheviks in Russia didn't take long to resort to cannibalism it was not uncommon. I just can't even fathom and I do not wish to. I just hope I can find useful information on this and then I can go speak with members of the state house. If you have any legal facts or any other ideas please feel free to respond. Sometimes it's the questions we didn't think to ask or sometimes it's a detail a laymen wouldn't even see or process. If anyone can provide any information please don't hesitate.