[knarf]

There sure seems to be plenty of oil. What we need are refineries.

AND ... enough oil drilling/refining politicians to tell the anti's to pound sand.

[RightWhale]

Refineries in the USA are running about 83% of capacity.

[thackney]

There sure seems to be plenty of oil. What we need are refineries.

We could about triple our domestic oil production before we reached the domestic refinery capacity. We would just use our own oil instead of funding OPEC nations.

[thegreatestgeneration]

There sure seems to be plenty of oil. What we need are refineries.

Huh? Are you kidding? That's just the problem - there is not "plenty of oil" left at all. In fact there really isn't much more than 50 years worth by many estimates. And that includes drilling in ANWR and everywhere else. It's going to run out someday, and that day is fast approaching.