[Mr Ramsbotham]

Why in the name of everything that’s inflammable should the United States have to import gasoline?

[shove_it]

You’ll have to ask Mr. Pickens about that but I’m pretty sure he was talking about the imported oil to make gasoline if you read the next sentence.

[nascarnation]

Actually we were getting a good price on imported gasoline from Europe. They’ve gone to such a large diesel population in their fleet mix that their refineries make too much gasoline.

[thackney]

Why in the name of everything that’s inflammable should the United States have to import gasoline?

. . . .

Because we don’t make enough of it ourselves. We are close, but you can only move the ratios of gasoline, diesel etc from a barrel of crude a limited amount.

We make more diesel than we use and we make less gasoline. So we are a net exporter of diesel and a net importer of gasoline.

Also, we still import about 7 million barrels a day of oil to keep up with our refineries.