To: K-oneTexas
All the hand-wringing over crude supply is really missing the mark. Crude supply isn't the limiting factor right now. Refining capacity is.
Drilling ANWR and the entire shoreline of the USA still wouldn't get more gasoline and Diesel fuel out of our refineries.
10 posted on
06/13/2008 7:24:26 AM PDT by
TChris
("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesnÂ’t make him my enemy." -RR)
To: TChris
That is true ... a refinery hasn’t been built in the US since 1979 or 1989. Either year is too long ago. Although I do seem to remember reading that Marathon Oil is building some, even though the number will not be sufficient to make much of a difference.
13 posted on
06/13/2008 7:35:24 AM PDT by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: TChris
"Crude supply isn't the limiting factor right now. Refining capacity is."
Not to mention the onerous task of the numerous "special blends" required.
17 posted on
06/13/2008 8:20:21 AM PDT by
Las Vegas Ron
(Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
To: TChris
Drilling ANWR and the entire shoreline of the USA still wouldn't get more gasoline and Diesel fuel out of our refineries. Do you really believe that if more drilling were authorized, refinery capacity would remain the same?
26 posted on
06/13/2008 9:37:32 AM PDT by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
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