system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why won't gas prices go back to pre-9/11 prices if we are producing as much if not more oil?
gpt
Market price has nothing to do with WHO makes it.

When the US comes up with an oilfield on federal land, the government makes out like gangbusters.  It's tax income.  

The oil will ALWAYS be sold at market value, no matter where it comes from.  Even if you were so deluded as to say "we're gonna sell gas to Americans for $1/gal!" some American will buy up all the $1 gasoline and resell at $3/gal and laugh all the way to the Billionaire's Club.