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Go to a 5 year chart. You will see a steep drop in the price of gas around July 2008. President George W. Bush lifted the moratorium on off shore drilling.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
Originally posted by Cancerwarrior
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
I could give a # about Obama..... I live on the Gulf Coast and pay $3.97...
That's freaking crazy to me. I just lived in Atlanta and right before I moved I filled up for $4.19 a gallon. I couldn't imagine my Chicago, New York, and West Coast comrades prices right now..
Obama should have approved the Keystone Pipeline.
He is doomed.
Everyone thinks this pipeline is all good and no bad. Trust me, its worse having a huge P/L like that full of 20 million barrels going over aquifers and such. The few jobs would mainly have been for pump station operatos long term. I worked on the Keystone P/L and can tell some stories alright, but I'm not lyin when I say Its nasty to process dirty canada oil.
Has anyone floated the idea of building a new state-of-the-art refinery in North Dakota?
Distribute the Super Unleaded & Diesel fuel from right there.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
I could give a # about Obama..... I live on the Gulf Coast and pay $3.97...
That's freaking crazy to me. I just lived in Atlanta and right before I moved I filled up for $4.19 a gallon. I couldn't imagine my Chicago, New York, and West Coast comrades prices right now..
Obama should have approved the Keystone Pipeline.
He is doomed.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
This headline spells the end of the Obama presidency.
The oil refineries do not have the capability to refine low
quality oil from Venezuela . It has high sulfur content.
Instead of making improvements Sunoco is just trying to sell
the whole refinery.
It's over. The high price of gas is the Achilles heel of
President Obama. Killing the Keystone Pipeline and giving us
solutions like Algae have Americans fuming. The DNC phone call
to Hillary Clinton is imminent.
www.newser.com
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This headline spells the end of the Obama presidency.
President Obama. Killing the Keystone Pipeline and giving us
to Hillary Clinton is imminent.
Originally posted by Varemia
Very few people in this thread seem to remember that the US does produce a lot of oil, but we export almost all of it, and then import what we need from other countries. It's really convoluted.
Originally posted by AmericanPitBull
Back in the 70's gas crunch the only oil field work available was capping producing wells so if during this one we are shutting refineries no surprise. What I find interesting is then and now we had a democratic president the oil companies did not like. So rather than point at the president during these examples I look to the oil companies. It was not by presidential edict those wells were filled with concrete in the seventies it was how the oil industry whipped the country in line the first time. Keystone oil is going to the gulf so it can be put on a tanker and shipped to indonesia and we are not likely to see a drop of it given the price of gas in indonesia. Time to look at the other hand folks the pres does not set oil prices or control them (if he did I can hear the screams from most of you) they are set by wall street speculation by the "job creators"
APB
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
I could give a # about Obama..... I live on the Gulf Coast and pay $3.97...
That's freaking crazy to me. I just lived in Atlanta and right before I moved I filled up for $4.19 a gallon. I couldn't imagine my Chicago, New York, and West Coast comrades prices right now..
Obama should have approved the Keystone Pipeline.
He is doomed.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
reply to post by Jetman44
It also costs $46,000.
It's range is too limited. GM has stopped production and laid off the employees.
Nobody wants to buy it.
GM should move the Chevy Volt into a museum right next to the Edsel.
The Government gave an assurance it was doing all it could to find a buyer for one of the country's biggest oil refineries today after it fell into administration, prompting fears of job losses and fuel shortages.
The shutdown at the former BP-owned refinery - with a capacity of 175,000 barrels of crude oil per day - came as Zurich-based owner Petroplus said talks with its lenders had broken down and it had appointed a receiver to the UK refinery.
Originally posted by Sharpenmycleats
Originally posted by AmericanPitBull
Back in the 70's gas crunch the only oil field work available was capping producing wells so if during this one we are shutting refineries no surprise. What I find interesting is then and now we had a democratic president the oil companies did not like. So rather than point at the president during these examples I look to the oil companies. It was not by presidential edict those wells were filled with concrete in the seventies it was how the oil industry whipped the country in line the first time. Keystone oil is going to the gulf so it can be put on a tanker and shipped to indonesia and we are not likely to see a drop of it given the price of gas in indonesia. Time to look at the other hand folks the pres does not set oil prices or control them (if he did I can hear the screams from most of you) they are set by wall street speculation by the "job creators"
APB
Someone needs to tell the president he is not responsible. Someone also needs to tell Nancy Pelosi as well because she too thinks the White House is responsible. I guess the President doesn't have any control over prices when a Democrat is in the White House. But when George Bush is in office! These double talk mouth pieces have to go!
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