[Vwdiesel] Cheap tomorrow?

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/5/2007 9:36:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
toensing at wildblue.net writes:

> as I understand, there are only 4 major owners of most of the refineries in 
> this country, all of which are running at near or full capacity. Every so 
> often, they conveniently shut one down for "maintenance &repairs". Then the 
> shortage pushes up the price.

  If you consider that EPA regulations are such that it's 
nearly impossible to build a new refinery...   Small wonder 
we end up importing a lot of finished product instead of 
crude.  
  If it were all due to Bush's grand scheme to curtail the 
unencumbered flow of oil and thus a resultant tightening or 
shortage of crude, we'd be seeing gas lines, shortages and 
such like we did in the 70's.  The BIG problem is the depsite 
the constant climb in the price of fuel, most people have 
made darn little change in their demand.  Lower the demand 
and the price will drop.  Keep buying it at $2/gal, $3/gal, $4/
gal and who can blame them for selling it for that, wouldn't 
any of you/us???  Then there's some of us that are already 
on the cheap and really can't use much less fuel.
     Loren


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