[Bloodclot]

Is it time to start drilling now?

[TheForceOfOne]

Liberals always say we should be paying for gas at Euroweenie prices because *pout* it's just not fair!

Their wish may come true. Meanwhile Castro will drill for oil right off our shores and sell the oil to us to prop up his Commie dictatorship.

[taxed2death]

Last I heard refineries were only operating at 85% capacity. All the drilling in the world ain't gonna make more gas.

[AD from SpringBay]

I hear there's crude up there in Alaska, or maybe it was Texas - but if we drill there the world will end, so I guess that's out of the question. But then there's ethanol - but that's bad too because I read it on a message board somewhere. Guess we're screwed. Time to pay the government a billion dollars for Federally run mass transit. That will work.

[RightWhale]

It's interesting how witnesses who appear on the news interviews manage to lump lack of gasoline together with the long-gone days of $1.50 fuel. This shortage is a distribution problem and somebody is not doing his job.

[walford]

I wonder if these boutique fuels are also a way of hastening the demise of older vehicles. My '81 Custom Cruiser has been running rough lately and replacing the carb [because the floats were getting saturated] didn't restore the recently rebuilt 403's usual smooth operation.

Is there some additive that can counteract the effects of ethanol for older engines?