On May 8, 11:03�am, "Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute"
wrote:
In . earthlink.net,
Calif Bill sprach forth the following:

The rules of a capitalistic market do not apply when the raw materials
are controlled by an oligopoly.

The US produces 1/3 of its own oil consumption, and imports the rest from
many countries.

There is no opportunity for new
players to enter the field and supply superior or cheaper refined
products.

Not so long as there are 41 insane Senators there isn't. *Sad.

Even *if* there were a new and independent refinery built,
the operators would need to rely on their competitors for raw
materials....not a good business model in any industry.

Not all oil companies are drillers and transporters and refiners.

There is a shortage of refined product because world demand has
increased to the point where there is no longer any surplus supply.

Due primarily to the aforementioned insane Senators.

If that attitude disrupts economies or creates hardships for
people who have previously relied on a predictable supply of a product
at a predictable price that's too fricking bad. The oil companies are
in business to make a profit......period.

And the oil campanies are the only businesses in the entire world that er
"in business to make a profit". *Oh, wait. *No they're not. *So your point
is worthless.

Few people are going to buy any
recreational vessel or vehicle that needs to consume enormous
quantities of petroleum products to operate, and who can blame them?
Tough as it is when the costs are $4-5 at the fuel dock, imagine what
would happen if fuel goes to $6-7, or $7-8?

All the more reason to open ANWR.

I think I can see where we're going on a few fronts over the next few
to several years, and I wish the picture were slightly prettier from
here.

All the more reason to open ANWR.

We're entering an era of fewer options for all but the folks in
the very highest income brackets, as well as when a flock of
consequences begin coming home to roost.

All the more reason to open ANWR.

Most of the retooling of refineries is a government requirement. *Going
from Winter to Summer Blend. *When California had real shortages a
couple of years ago, we could not get fuel from Arizona, that had a
surplus, because it did not meet the Calif. State blend requirements.

All the more reason to storm the statehouse. *And then open ANWR :-).

And the refineries were required to add MTBE. *The stuff ate up seals
at an extreme rate. *One of the reasons there were more refinery fires.

Your tax dollars at ****up. *Anyone notice a theme here?

A theme?

Yeah, you keep advocating for opening ANWR. :-)

USGS estimates that peak production from ANWR would be only about
876,000 bbl a day, and that's ten years or more out there. At current
consumption, that's around 3% of US energy needs.

There is also no assurance that if the Japanese, the Chinese, or
somebody else is willing to pay a lot more for oil recovered from ANWR
that a single drop of this crude would ever be refined in or sold in
the US. If congress passed a law that oil fron ANWR *must* be refined
and sold in the US, that would merely free up some other domestic
supply to be sold overseas.

Must we rape every last corner of the planet in pursuit of a 19th
century economic model before we move forward into the 21st? I'd like
to think not.

Pleasure boating, as we know it today, may not be part of the
landscape before too many more years go by. That could be part of
moving forward into the 21st Century. Damn. But whoever said life was
fair?