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We can have all the oil we want -- just be willing to pay the high prices
at the pump. When we pay those prices, the refineries increase their rate of production by bidding up the price of crude oil in the commodity futures markets to increase their supply. So, all we have to do is outbid other countries for the crude and pay increasing high prices at the pump. (The POTUS has no influence on this process.)