High-gas-price blues? Blame the greens

WND.com ^ | 3/2//04 | Henry Lamb

[yawningotter]

I just realized something based on a couple of articles I read here several months ago. One involved reviving oil exploration in Tennessee, and the other involved a plan to preserve a small area on the Tennessee-Alabama border. It seems that the greenies had the ultimate goal of placing some 3 million acres of the region around the area to be preserved under protected status, including areas which were in the oil article. Imagine placing an area larger than Death Valley National Monument over middle Tennessee and northeast Alabama and make it off limits to oil exploration, or coal mining, or any other development. Do that all over the United States, and you take away any chance to develop oil or coal or any other type of energy because you can't even take it out of the ground. The reason the greenies want to create a 3 million acre preserve to protect an area of a few thousand acres is to prevent development of our resources and further their leftist agenda.

[arm958]

You were complaining about people's lack of foresight. I simply pointed out that if you had such good foresight about energy prices you should be filthy rich by now. Given that you aren't, I see that you are simply wallowing around in the pit of hindsight all the while wondering why everyone else isn't in there with you.

Oh, get over yourself already. Who gives a rat's @ss about being filthy rich.

[deport]

That hits the nail on the head. Refining capacity in the U.S. is way down.

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If there was an instant doubling of the refining capacity tomorrow would that drop the price of crude per barrell that is charged by the producers such as the Middle East? Or would we just have double the amount of gasoline at the current price levels?

[hopespringseternal]

Who gives a rat's @ss about being filthy rich.

Boy, a thread like this sure does flush the socialists.

Wealth is wonderful. Greed and envy are evil. People who constantly belittle wealth are greedy and/or envious.

And as far as the gas price going up, it doesn't have to. There is plenty of oil, but production has been curtailed and refining capacity is being kept low.

Until people realize that the green and the democrats are dishonest and hate America and vote them out of power, they will periodically engineer crises to sabotage the economy.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Wouldn't drop the price of crude, but it would drop the price of the various end products.

Also getting rid of the various mandated "blendings" would both drop the price and improve the environment as the by additive's products would not leach into the ground water as they do now.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Do people really need so many gas guzzlers?

Is it really any of your business?

A little defensive, aren't we?

[Doohickey]

It's got nothing to do with being defensive and everything to do with you being a busybody. You really should focus on yourself and those close to you instead of making judgements about what people choose to drive. As long as gasoline is freely available, people can buy as much as they want as often as they want and do with it whatever they choose.