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To: EdReform
The fact that we have not built a refinery since 1972 (I believe that is the year), says a lot.

We need to build more refineries, and drill our own oil. It may not help right now, but it will make the future better. If we had drilled years ago like they wanted to, we would not be paying the price we are now.

Thanks to congress and the envirowackos paying them off, I can barley afford to commute to work.

11 posted on 06/13/2008 8:27:03 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; backhoe

We need to build more refineries, and drill our own oil. It may not help right now, but it will make the future better. If we had drilled years ago like they wanted to, we would not be paying the price we are now.


The Democrat Party and their Green Party envirowacko minions have already blocked refinery expansions that were ready to be built:

From the link I posted above:

"The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, successfully pressured the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block ConocoPhillips’ expansion of its Roxana, Ill., gasoline refinery, which processes heavy crude oil from Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The project would have expanded the volume of Canadian crude processed from 60,000 barrels per day to more than 500,000 barrels a day by 2015. After the Illinois EPA had approved the expansion, the green groups petitioned the federal EPA to block it, alleging ConocoPhillips wasn’t using the best available technology for reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

Apparently, the plant’s planned 95 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions and 25 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides wasn’t green enough..."



13 posted on 06/13/2008 8:45:43 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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