" Piffle. Heating oil stocks are very high, and there are already programs to get heating oil to the needy."
Stocks are down from last year and the programs to get oil to the poor are virtually all run by the states with federal funds on a voucher system. The amount of money available this year is exactly what it was last year when the price of home heating oil was substantially lower than it is now.
"Piffle again. It isn't about local refineries. Oil products can be and are shipped from one side of the country to the other, and one side of the world to the other, when an order is placed. Lack of refineries will not affect the oil coming from Venezuela, for instance."
Precisely, but the oil companies/administration line is that the problem in this country lies in a lack of refining capacity, not crude supply.
"Home heating oil is nothing more than regular diesel oil, usually #2, though sometimes it has a different mix of additives. If you look at the price at your local gas station, you will see that the cost is higher than gasoline there, as well."
Over the road diesel is taxed just like gasoline. Home heating oil isn't.
Your creditability isn't going to improve by repeating the BS that appears in the Boston Plop, NYT and spews forth from Kennedy's gang of limousine-socialists.
Rest assured there is PLENTY of oil and money to pay for it. If there were any REAL concern, the government could just cut its extortionate taxes on oil and gasoline which amount to around 3 times the oil company profit per gallon. The government gets its rakeoff without doing ANYTHING constructive toward finding, drilling for, refining, or distributing the product.
The economic ignorance of MASSholes and liberal moonbats would be unbelievable if it weren't so prominently and frequently demonstrated.
.....and that still will not cause anybody to freeze because they couldn't get any heating oil. There is plenty of fuel and charity money to go around.
....the oil companies/administration line is that the problem in this country lies in a lack of refining capacity, not crude supply.
That is everybodies line, if they are talking about problems caused by a refinery or two being shut down. However, your argument was about the "line" about refineries in the N.E., not worldwide.
Farm-use fuels do not pay road taxes either, and diesel is still usually more expensive than gasoline. Home heating oil is taxed, although politicians don't like to admit it.