we need to allow oil and natural-gas production elsewhere. We would have greater supplies, lower prices and less vulnerability to storms or other disruptions.
1 posted on
09/03/2006 6:31:47 AM PDT by
thackney
To: thackney
It's more than that.
We need to increase and upgrade our refinery capacity.
NIMBYism is a huge problem.
2 posted on
09/03/2006 6:37:24 AM PDT by
sauropod
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." PJO)
To: thackney
I just saw gas for $2.399 in Ohio.
4 posted on
09/03/2006 6:41:45 AM PDT by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: thackney
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Politics, not geology, is the reason America has concentrated so many energy eggs into one hurricane-prone basket off Louisiana and Texas.
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Well, it is also economics because building onshore and nearshore facilities in the Gulf must be so much less expensive than doing so in the northeast or southern Kali, assuming you have the time, money and patience to get a proposed project through all the layers of approval and regulation.
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