Posted on 04/25/2006 7:29:28 AM PDT by kellynla
We also need to look at building more nukes and utilizing our tremendous coal reserves.
If we can refine the Fishcer Tropsch (coal gasification to liquid hydrocarbons) process using more stable catalysts to produce clean burining diesel (which it sounds like we're getting closer to doing) would help tremendously.
"We need more refineries and now."
Agreed, yet the one thing the enviro-whacks and Big Oil are in agreement on is that neither wants more refineries. Enviro-whacks for obvious reasons. Big Oil doesn't want them, since that would be one less reason (more supply) for them to jack up prices.
Because you're taking advantage of a bad situation and making it worse. Just look at the profits the industry has reported since Katrina. The industry is raping people at the pump.
Should lessen speculation, when Clinton let a few drops out of the supply years back the price plumeted as speculators dumped contracts.
How about this solution? Gas prices/gas wars. An idea that will work?
This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. Its worth your consideration.
Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.
BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nation s have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at$1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.
Here's the idea:
For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get
excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me
on this one.)
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?
Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICESTO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
PS Just enter your zip code in the site below, and it tells you which gas stations have the cheapest prices (and the highest) on gas in your zip code area. It's updated every evening!
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx
It's called ANWR!!!
I agree about the prosecution part. Most of the 535 are eligible, imo.
Shortages are involved in gasoline prices, but the critical one may surprise you.
FWIW, I heard we're still down 13% from last year.
The industry makes 9 cents a gallon. The government makes 50 cents a gallon. Who's doing the raping?
What we also need is to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources.
Sorry, I disagree on Ethanol.... If its ETHANOL over MBTE... I'll take Ethonol every time... MTBE is an ecological nightmare that the EPA forced on america and now we have groundwater all over the united states that is poison thanks to the tree huggers.
As to the EPA making it impossible to build refineries, I agree that crap has to stop.
However the current run up has nothing to do with either of these issues, its just pure and simple futures manipulation at the corp of this one.
Basic economics will tell you that this won't work.
If you really want to hurt the oil companies, get everyone in America to stop buying gasoline (from anyone) for three months. Anything less isn't going to make a dent. What? You say that won't work, that you can't go that long without buying gasoline? Surprise!
I thought that the SPR was topped off a year and a half ago??
Did we start filling another salt dome???
Do you have a breakdown of the costs of a gallon of oil, by chance?
Ethanol limitations are not behind 70+bbl crude... while it might affect pump prices and distribution, Ethonol and its availability have zero to do with crude pricing... which is the major component, and right now its futures manipulation that is behind it, not a lack of supply or an increase in demand.
where did you pull that from? there are 700 million barrels in the SOR and we use about 20 million a day and some of that is domestic. you only need to replace whatever is not being imported so this could last for months, or years. the problem would be refining it.
Get off of it now."
Needed emphasis.
With all due respect that is an extreme exxageration. California has more cars than the whole of China.
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