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Article #7974Re: Washington Post: $1.46 on each gallon sold is new profit for oil industry
From: timeOday
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:57
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:57
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Dave Head wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:44:03 -0600, timeOday <timeOday-UNSPAM@theknack.net> > wrote: > > >>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 Like I said, most of it is already imported, why not refine it BEFORE importing? It's no more bulky as gasoline than crude. By importing just a few percent as finished product, we'd easily put slack into our own refining capability. Outsourcing is an effective end-run around environmental and labor law in all other industries, why not oil refining?
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