[AnnaZ]

I do, and did, understand the analogy. Thanks, though, for taking the time to explain it further. (Like the "no animal testing" thing on products... the final product might not have been tested on animals, but each separate ingredient within it most definitely was.) But anyway...

I find it hard to believe that a company couldn't simply put domestic petroleum products through a refinery. If not, that is a problem.

I think people need to be a little pro-active about this and demand "terror-free oil". If the premise behind it grows, it might overwhelm the propaganda against off-shore/Alaskan drilling. (And then we just need to reallyreally come up with convenient cost-efficient alternatives.)

[Rodney King]

I find it hard to believe that a company couldn't simply put domestic petroleum products through a refinery. If not, that is a problem.

You could, theoretically. You could only buy oil from say Chesapeke energy, and own your own refinery and demand that it go through some small refinery where you know what is going on. The problem is that your total distributions costs would be higher than your competitors and you would then go out of business. Now, even if you did that, it still wouldn't really harm the arabs all that much, because they would sell the oil elsewhere, you would need the whole world in on it.