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On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:37:19 -0500, barbie gee <barbie.gee@NOSESPAMgmail.com>
wrote:

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>On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Dave Head wrote:
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>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:26:52 -0500, barbie gee <barbie.gee@NOSESPAMgmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Dave Head wrote:
>>>> On 25 Sep 2005 12:58:39 -0700, "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend"
>>>> <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>> No one is stopping big oil from building the refineries.
>>>>
>>>> Oh yes they are.  A whole load of environmental regulations, laws, and lawsuits
>>>> prevents anyone from building a refinery here, and has for the last 30 years.
>>>
>>> Cite.
>>>
>>> you can use the government DOE site if you need to.
>>
>> Well, this stuff has been all over the news for years - there's no need to
>> spend hours digging thru websites doing research.  Its in the news, there's no
>> _other_ news sources saying that the original reports are false, so I'll take
>> it that these newsmen have their reports straight.  Meanwhile, I have work to
>> do on other stuff (my car... ) that demands higher priority of my time than
>> chasing stuff known to be common knowledge.
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>"common knowledge" doesn't necessarily equal "facts"
>the "environmental regulations" don't amount to a hill of beans in the 
>equation. 
><http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3792>
><http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/usa.html>

Interesting pages.

However, the newspeople are still reporting that the refineries are getting a
very large percentage of the increase in gas prices.  This _still_ says to me
that there is a shortage of refining capacity, as, again reported by the press.
I tend to believe them.  Remove the other reasons why refineries aren't being
built, and you _still_ couldn't do it because of these very
envirowacko-inspired excessive regulations of the building of refineries, that
prohibits their construction.

Dave Head