[mysterio]

If it wasn't important enough for you to even know where they stand, let alone contact them about, why should they think it was important.

I've pretty much given up on both of them. But that's really no excuse.

I work in the oil and gas industry. What the prices have done is spur the huge investments we needed back in 1998-2000 to produce the resources we want today. Rig counts are way up, huge amounts of dollars are being planned, permited, engineered and constructed both in traditional and non-traditional sources (deep water, oil sands, etc).

I hope you're right. But we are still importing most of it. I hear we are expanding a refinery, but no new ones have been built in a while. I just think that any energy source that gives your enemies the ability to shut down your economy is one we should consider replacing.

[thackney]

I hear we are expanding a refinery, but no new ones have been built in a while. I just think that any energy source that gives your enemies the ability to shut down your economy is one we should consider replacing.

We are expanding more than one, and have been for a while. Refineries have been expanding within and around their existing locations, and efficiency is also up. As Fig. 5 shows, refining "capacity," however defined, has been trending upward nicely over the last 15 years.