Self sufficiency, lol, we should be investing heavily into green technology at this point. lets be world leaders at that, they create more or will create more jobs than fossil fuels ever will. a few thousand added jobs is a joke and what money? these multinational companies own the oil, pay no or nearly no taxes, get subsidized out the wazzo.
This is all being figured out 20 years too late, should have been build in the 90s. Demand for oil is peaking and prices are crashing again. Canadian oils worth like 15 bucks a barrel which is a joke.