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About as expected. A lot of "for a smart guy you're pretty stupid" kind of lines thrown in. I responded to what was basically a 1st Amendment/oil/immigration grab bag (accompanied by Trump, as Bob Ross, painting a red wave), got back a focus on oil. Supply/demand, look at profit margins not dollar amounts. Then when I did (and provided a link on how % profit for the last two quarters were the two highest by far of any since 2010), don't I know that oil isn't Exxon's only product? (Oil and oil accessories, I guess.) Then that the US had always been energy independent and a huge supplier. I countered with links to graphs that showed that we may be the largest supplier now, but even so that's only 20%...and, huh, we were actually out-produced by the Saudis all during GW's tenure...
More on getting back to being independent and actually exporting; I found a graph that, well, hrm -- we're currently exporting as much as we ever have. Oh, well FRACKING, and yada yada green stuff bad; I left it with "well, ok, go ahead and frack and drill -- but be prepared for your dreaded immigration when areas become increasingly uninhabitable!", let him know that despite the bits of condescension I felt quite secure regarding my level of intelligence, and everyone went back to watching baseball.
I mean, he had arguments ready, at least for oil. Which makes you pause when you haven't done any in-depth study. But the arguments didn't necessarily seem to jibe with what I was finding number-wise.
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