On May 19, 2004, at 8:02 AM, Jon N. Benignus wrote:
>
> on 5/18/04 11:05 PM, Aaron Wyse at awyse@sw.rr.com wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't figure in the refinery maintenance.. shouldn't they have
>> been
>> rotating which ones they shut down anyway.. Maintenance is just that,
>> and
>> they would have had it planned for.
> The problem with that is all the refineries are running WFO. Take one
> refinery out of the mix, and you have a shortage.
> There haven't been any new refineries built in many years because
> everone
> has the NIMBY attitude. There are refineries about 30 miles from here
> which
> have been shut down due to EPA regs. Fewer refineries, higher demand,
> higher
> crude prices equals higher gas prices.
>
> Cheap gas is not a birthright.
>
> Hey, how about rescinding the fuel tax increases Klinton gave us?
>
> Jon
> STL MO
>
>
All I will say is this. Remember that quite a few refineries were taken
off line back in the 90's for the only reason but to help keep gas
prices up. Cut the production supply down a bit and you can keep the
prices up. There was a whole buch of senate, epa, dept. of energy
investigations into this until the current administration took office.
Since they are oil friendly for the most part everything has been
placed on the back burner. Not pointing fingers since it wold matter
which party was in office, if they had a oil sensitive administration
they would be the same way.
Just the facts................
Jeff Durling
BTW, cheap gas insn't a birthright but price gouging illegal.
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