[BlueMoose]

I have been told that Alaska's North Slope was NOT being exported to Asia.

[IronJack]

Headline: Oil Companies Gouge Consumers

In Other News: Sun Rises in East
"Water is wet" Says Expert
Francisco Franco Still Dead

[am452]

bump for later reading

[G.Mason]

" ... Now the commission has issued a 39-page document citing the BP trading and other examples and asking for public comment on whether such activity represents the type of "market manipulation" in the oil industry that Congress has given it broad new powers to investigate ... "

I give up ...

I'm gonna find a cave in the woods, and start eating bugs & berries.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

[blueyon]

Since Bush is coming under fire for the oil companies doings right now then it is only fair to ask..WHO WAS PRESIDENT IN 2000? DUH

[RightWhale]

If BP somehow shipped some oil from Prudhoe to Asia when they were not allowed to do that, they must have done some amazing things like made an oil tanker invisible like the Philadelphia Experiment.

[weezel]

Methane is more abundant on earth then oil. Why we don’t use it instead of trying to make fuel out of corn is beyond me.

http://www.truehealth.org/methane.html

[BfloGuy]

If Maria Cantwell, that great mind and economist, says so, then it must be.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Cantwell said that if BP exports oil to short supply, it is manipulation. "Until we passed the energy bill last year, it may not have been a clear violation. Now it is illegal," she said.

And Cantwell and her buddies "short supply" by outlawing drilling in ANWAR and off our coasts, thereby driving up the cost of gasoline, which inturn reduces our ability to drive, which inturn reduces our "carbon footprint", which makes Al Gore happy and serves the Democratic party's environmental lobby.

[raisetheroof]

Cantwell said that if BP exports oil to short supply, it is manipulation.

The ignorance of that is astonishing.

Oil is a world wide fungible commodity. Alaska's exporting oil to Asia has no more effect on the overall supply than Canada's exporting oil to us.

When I was in Alaska a few years ago, I was told that oil is exported from there because Asia was closer, and so it was cheaper to send it there than to transport it all the way down to the lower 48.