You started with:
nop company can get a permit to get to the stuff
That is false, we are producing both gas and oil this way from shale and have been for a few years in several locations.
Then you said:
Moreover this country has not built processing plants to increase capacity in ages.
Also false, we have been building gas processing and refinery process units and expanding our capacity for decades. Not a new grass roots refinery but the more cost effect expansion of existing refineries.
You also said:
my comment about oil part of shale was in response to statistics about natural gas portions of shale.
I still cannot decipher what you were trying to say there.
You had stated that the refinery growth had flattened out and also complained that we were exporting products. Which one do you want? We refine more than we use, but you believe we should keep expanding, but not export the excess? How would that work?
What Harry Reid is not telling the public is that the United States remains a net importer of crude oil and petroleum products. Total imports of crude oil and petroleum products in 2011 were 4 times more than the petroleum products that were exported. In fact, the United States spent more than $433 billion on crude oil and petroleum imports in 2011, over $100 billion more than the $333 billion spent in 2010 and over 4 times the value of the petroleum we exported. Nevertheless, Senator Harry Reid suggests the purpose of importing Canadian oil via the proposed Keystone Pipeline is to export it in the form of petroleum products.