While I'm sure your post was at least partly in jest, just want to make a
few comments.
The Iraq oil fields have stopped pumping because the storage facilities are
full. The oil companies are waiting for the price to go up even more
before they put the Iraq oil back on the market.
The average profit for oil companies is up 24% over the same period 2 years
ago.
The highest state gasoline tax is California, where the combined state and
federal tax is 50.4 percent. That is nowhere near half the cost of gasoline.
The oil industry has proven itself irresponsible in preserving the
environment. Does Exxon Valdez ring any bells? Environmentalists are being
scapegoated for energy problems that have nothing to do with environmental
protection. Neocons are blaming the failure to drill in the Arctic
Wilderness for current gas prices. The Arctic Refuge only holds a
six-month supply of oil that wouldn't be available for at least ten years.
No new refineries have been built in the US because the oil industry chose
to build elsewhere, just like all the other industries that have moved
overseas. Cheap labor, no unions and they can rape the natural resources
without consequences. (see: Shell Oil/Nigeria)
I don't give a rodent's behind about taking care of Shrub and his oil buddies.
Maureen
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we
are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore
Roosevelt (1918)
At 11:46 AM 6/8/04, you wrote:
>Pardon the top post;
>
>The Alaskan Oil is being sold mainly to Japan.
>The Texas Oil is mainly capped off due to regulations.
>The California oil is blocked by the greens (environmentalists)
>Oklahoma cannot supply the rest of the nation
>There has been no new oil refineries built in the US in twenty years,
>therefore
>we could not refine enough crude to supply the US even if there was plenty of
>crude to go around.
>Over half of the price you pay for fuel is taxes
>Oh, and there is plenty of oil in Mexico who would like to sell to the US, but
>the US has always refused to pay them market price. The same applies to their
>natural gas, so they just burn that off.
>Argentina has plenty of oil, but political turmoil has its production pretty
>well turned off.
>Lastly, if we solved all the above problems, then how would Bush % Co.
>take care
>of their Saudi Buddies?
>Most of us know that we need to get new dipsticks in DC.
>
> There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil
> shortage here in America. Well, there's a very simple answer......Nobody
> bothered to check the oil! We just didn't know we were getting low. The
> reason for that is purely geographical:
>
> All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and Oklahoma and All our
> dipsticks are in Washington, DC.
>
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