[yldstrk]

What does this mean?

[gitmo]

It is no longer profitable to be in the oil business in the US. They have to reorganize overseas and export from their new homes to the US. This leaves the US as vulnerable as Germany was in WWII ... with no domestic petroleum source. Plus we are shipping our dollars overseas to pay for what we used to produce at home.

[bpjam]

It means that every crisis in the oil or gas market is created BY the Congress, the EPA and some State Governments. And it means that you have very, very little hope of ever seeing unleaded gas in the $2 range again since the solutions to the problem run contrary to the agenda of the envirowackos and the Democrat Party who hates you and your car.

I’m sure its nothing personal but they would be perfectly happy if you just died so you could stop using so much oil.

[Racer1]

More than likely it means that yes its tough to run a refinery these days, but also the current methodology of corporate thinking these days it to run the crap out of company assets called lean manufacturing(meaning run the place on a shoe string and not properly fix anything). Then sell them while the demand for there products are up when they know that they have raped about all they can get from them.