It' called Repair and Maintenance, you dumba$$...
Well..............if the Dems. think they can pass a bill and bring down gas prices, let them try.
If all you had to do to lower gas prices was to pass a bill in Congress, it would have been done years ago.
The refinery capacity is tight because of environmental regulations making it difficult to build new refineries.
Environmental regulations requiring different formulations of gas in different seasons and different parts of the country add to the problem.
The same people who carp about high gas prices are the same people who are against building new refineries, against alternatives such as drilling for more domestic oil, against using more coal, even clean coal technology, and against nuclear power.
Part of our energy problems are because the enviro-Democratic lobbies are against everything that might help.
HAsn’t Harry Ried heard of the federal regs that require a different gasoline formulation in the summer? It requires a retooling of all the refineries!
He could put an end to the “shoulder season” and reduce gas prices for everyone!
shhhhhhhh, do not mention those facts to Reid.
Most states require at least two formulations, one for summer and one for winter. The refineries have to be taken down to prepare for the reformulation switchover and that is a good time to perform maintenance. The law of supply and demand then takes over.
Mr. Reid, pwer plants do the same thing, maybe twice a year, in addition to their standard MRO. Get a clue!
If liberals hadn’t opposed construction of new refineries for the last 30 years there wouldn’t be $3.00 gas.