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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:47:06 -0500, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This topic is so embedded in corporate greed and politics that it is really hard
> to decipher, especially with all the spin on the subject from varying sources.
>
> Forinstance.
>
> 1. The country of Mexico is burning off billions of cubic feet of natural gas
> which is desperately needed in the Northeast US. Mexico even built a pipeline
> from their oil fields to the US border in Texas for the purpose of selling that
> excess to the US, but the US would not offer or agree to pay a fair price, and
> thus it is all going to waste. Instead natural gas is purchased from the middle
> east, loaded and transported in expensive compressed container vessels, and the
> supply is subject to interruption at the drop of a hat.
>
> 2. Much political turmoil in Argentina, who, incidentally has vast oil
> reserves, but the US is not interested in providing the aid it is providing to
> Iraq, to assist in stabilizing that country and turning on the oil taps again to
> the US.
>
> 3. The Oil being produced in the Alaska area is being sold and shipped to
> Japan, because the environmentalists will not allow additional refining capacity
> to be built in the US to handle it. Increasing drilling and building production
> facilities in that area cannot help the energy supply in the US, although
> experience has already shown that the prior development has actually helped the
> wildlife and environment in the area.
>
> 4. There are known petroleum reserves in the South China Sea that exceed all the
> rest of the planet combined, but international politics is preventing its
> development, forcing China to increasingly buy on the open market, reducing the
> supply and increasing the prices for US imports.
>
> 5. A Russian company has purchased Getty Oil Co, and is buying up refining, and
> retail outlets along the Atlantic seaboard, in order to create a vertically
> integrated market for excess Russian Oil reserves.
>
> 6. Shell, Texaco and many other traditional US oil corporations are now owned
> off-shore, and who can expect foreign owners to have the best interests of the U
> S consumer in mind?
>
> 7. The country of Cuba has tremendous refining capacity sitting idle, which
> could be made available for production of refined products for the US market at
> economical pricing, but This country shuns Cuba because we do not like the
> leader or his regime. I think we call it "Trade Sanctions."
>
> 8, The Us does depend on the Automobile, (and trucks, trains, power generation,
> etc) and there is no effort being made other than on the Atlantic Seaboard to
> create an environment that will be conducive to walking, bicycling, mass
> transit, etc. Cities are still being platted out to build widely disbursed
> housing developments and subdivisions, while employers are miles away in widely
> disbursed locations, thus ownership and use of the automobile is absolutely
> necessary in order to survive, get educated, to earn a living, to do your
> shopping, deliver the kids to various extra-curricular activities such as
> sports, music lessons, and so forth.
>
> I honestly don't think there is a quick fix for this, and therefore there is a
> demand for better planning for energy supplies.
>
> Follow the money. - The Bush Family and its administration are immersed in this
> up to their necks, and we, the J Q Public are paying the ever-increasing price,
> and yet 47% of the voters polled still support this rape of the consumer.
>
> So much for my weekly pontification, now off to church!
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tangorre, Michael
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 10:40 AM
> Subject: Point to ponder...
>
> There is this idea, 'As a nation, we are too dependent on foreign oil.' I
> heard that roughly 25% of our GDP is directly related to the Automobile. And
> so, oil demand is incredibly high, not too mention other uses like home
> heating oil. Economics provides 2 solutions: decrease demand or increase
> domestic supply. And what is this administration doing to help curtail our
> craving for foreign oil: 1) increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars,
> No 2) Buying more hybrid vehicles for fleet use at the federal level, No 3)
> Creating tax rebates for incentives to homeowners to incorporate solar,
> re-insulate, upgrade to efficient boilers and oil burners, No 4) Require
> larger engines use displacement on demand technology, No again. Come to
> think of it, is there anything this administration has done to help stop
> billions of dollars flowing to huge wealthy oil regimes in other foreign
> countries?
>
> Mike
>
>
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