[Drango]

...gas prices will shoot up. They choose anything that happens in the world to drive up prices. Iran shoots at the Kurds and gas prices shoot up! Why? Because they use anything to drive them up. Hell, Manchester City can score two goals on Liverpool and gas prices will go up 20 cents!!! Any excuse. Any.

About ~5% of the world's oil facilities were impacted. What do you know about supply and demand that the rest of us don't know?

[RetiredArmy]

Read an article a week or so ago that came up after the last "glitch" or whatever the heck you want to call it; I think it was one of those refinery fires. It said that the US only gets about 5% to 8% of its oil from the Gulf states now. I assumed we get the majority of our oil now from the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and the North Dakota, Canada, what is it called, shell, shade, whatever it is up in ND, SD, Canada. But, that is the number I read. So, if we are really getting that little percentage of oil from the Persian gulf, then why do our oil prices go up so much every time a glitch hits here. But, that is what I read. That is what I was trying to post.