Re: Washington Post: $1.46 on each gallon sold is new profit for oil industry

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From: Dave Head
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:38

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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:44:03 -0600, timeOday <timeOday-UNSPAM@theknack.net>
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>Dave Head wrote:
>
>> 
>> They _never_ claim that they can't afford to build more.  They state quite
>> rightly that they can't get the land and build the refineries because of too
>> many regulations, laws, and NIMBYism lawsuits preventing it.
>> 
>> We have to fix NIMBYism first... for a whole lot more reasons than just oil
>> refineries.
>> 
>> Dave Head
>> 
>
>
>Is NIMBY really the problem, in this age of outsourcing?  Everything 
>else seems to be *cheaper* to import than to produce domestically, why 
>not so for refined gasoline?  We're already shipping the crude from all 
>over the world, why not just refine it (to our own specifications, of 
>course) before shipping it over?

That could be _some_ of the problem, but unlike software, the product is bulky
and heavy, with some finite cost to move overseas as crude, and move back here
as gasoline.

Dave Head

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