Why are we paying so much for gas???

1 TRILLION barrels of oil in shale from under the Rocky Mountains

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18132


- we can't touch it
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/new...le-moratorium/

5.7 Billion barrels of oil in ANWR

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...ecsummary.html

- we can't touch it.
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/oi...Roil050708.htm

5.9 Billion barrels of oil in NPRA
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs045-02/

- we can't touch it.
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/327390290.shtml

200 BILLION barrels of oil in N. Dakota

http://finance.google.com/group/goog...deebc8b9379e5f

- we can't touch it.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/artic...ers/151579.txt

Add these up (all are low end estimates) and you get 1,211,600,000,000 barrels of oil in just those 4 areas. If we multiply 365 days x 21,000,000 daily consumption in barrels and you get an annual consumption of 7,665,000,000 barrels. If you divide that into the low end estimate of available oil in JUST the four areas mentioned above, you find that we have enough oil RIGHT HERE to be COMPLETELY independent of mideast oil for 158 years at current consumption rates.

Why can't we go after our own oil???

The other problem we have with the price of Gas is we cannot refine it fast enough.

What are the issues preventing this???

No new refining capacity for over 30 years. Why???? Lawsuits brought by environmentalists and restrictions made by politicians.

Who is resposible for this???? Guess.

Environmentalists and Democrats and the press.


Are you fed up with $4.00 gas????

Who should you blame??? Environmentalists, the Press and Democrats.

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“Here’s one of the biggest steps forward for the Midwest, really the whole nation,” Mr. Daniels, a Republican, told reporters last week. “I don’t think it should be held up without a good scientific reason, and none has been provided.”

According to documents on BP’s Web site, the new permit allows the refinery to discharge 1,584 pounds of ammonia, an increase of 54 percent over the current level, into the lake each day. Also allowed is discharge of up to 4,925 pounds of suspended solids into the lake each day, an increase of 35 percent. .

Scott Dean, a spokesman for BP, said that the Indiana permit’s requirements were stricter than federal requirements, and that BP expected to operate well within those limits.

“We followed the regulatory process to the letter and did everything by the book,” Mr. Dean said.

The protests against the permit have been loudest from Chicago, Indiana’s urban neighbor to the northwest, where Mayor Richard M. Daley has been striving to create a green image for the city and its 30 miles of lakeshore. A committee of the Chicago City Council is scheduled to discuss the matter on Thursday.

The Illinois governor, Rod R. Blagojevich, a Democrat, has threatened legal action to stop the additional discharge of pollutants.

The permit is part of BP’s plan to expand and modernize the Whiting refinery, which was built in 1889 by the Standard Oil Company and which now processes 405,000 barrels of crude oil each day. About 1,700 people work at the facility, and BP has an annual payroll of about $100 million in Indiana. The expansion is set for completion in 2011.

BP documents said the company would also spend $150 million to improve its wastewater treatment plant in Whiting, from which it discharges about 20 million gallons of treated wastewater a day, including the ammonia and suspended solids addressed by the permit, into Lake Michigan.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/us/31refinery.html


Just one example the EPA approved it, yet that is not good enough - the enviro-idiots and their toadies are trying to stop it.

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Originally Posted by C Speaking

1 TRILLION barrels of oil in shale from under the Rocky Mountains

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18132


- we can't touch it
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/new...le-moratorium/

5.7 Billion barrels of oil in ANWR

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...ecsummary.html

- we can't touch it.
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/oi...Roil050708.htm

5.9 Billion barrels of oil in NPRA
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2002/fs045-02/

- we can't touch it.
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/327390290.shtml

200 BILLION barrels of oil in N. Dakota

http://finance.google.com/group/goog...deebc8b9379e5f

- we can't touch it.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/artic...ers/151579.txt

Add these up (all are low end estimates) and you get 1,211,600,000,000 barrels of oil in just those 4 areas. If we multiply 365 days x 21,000,000 daily consumption in barrels and you get an annual consumption of 7,665,000,000 barrels. If you divide that into the low end estimate of available oil in JUST the four areas mentioned above, you find that we have enough oil RIGHT HERE to be COMPLETELY independent of mideast oil for 158 years at current consumption rates.

Why can't we go after our own oil???

The other problem we have with the price of Gas is we cannot refine it fast enough.

What are the issues preventing this???

No new refining capacity for over 30 years. Why???? Lawsuits brought by environmentalists and restrictions made by politicians.

Who is resposible for this???? Guess.

Environmentalists and Democrats and the pre






Environmentalists, the press and Democrats.

Are you fed up with $4.00 gas????
Who should you blame??? Environmentalists, the Press and Democrats.

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With all talk of $200 a barrel oil $6.00 a gallon gas isn't far away.

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Originally Posted by Space Gravy

With all talk of $200 a barrel oil $6.00 a gallon gas isn't far away.

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Neither is a series of American political lynchings in Washington !

More lawsuits preventing building or making the cost of adding refining capacity prohibitive.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...type=printable



http://www.cfejcorpuschristi.org/INSIDE%20EPA.pdf


http://www.blackmesais.org/EPArule.htm


http://www.cjonline.com/stories/0518...80248011.shtml

http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns...onews2005.html

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Originally Posted by Space Gravy

With all talk of $200 a barrel oil $6.00 a gallon gas isn't far away.

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The thing of it is, if we had acted on these 10 years ago, when the Democrats blocked them, we would still be paying between $ 2.25 and $ 2.50 a gallon. If not less.

There are REAL costs for voting Democrat or staying out in protest.

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Originally Posted by C Speaking

The thing of it is, if we had acted on these 10 years ago, when the Democrats blocked them, we would still be paying between $ 2.25 and $ 2.50 a gallon. If not less.

There are REAL costs for voting Democrat or staying out in protest.

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It's just easier for most people to blame Bush.

Here's another log for the fire. It would be nice if grades could be standardized again.

Link

Stop being so silly. You go to Wal-Mart and Home Depot. You're the root cause of high priced oil.

135 years ago oil meant little to the world's economy. Then ships, automobiles and airplanes gradually came along and created a DEMAND for various finished products that came from crude.

No different now - it just hurts more because we're all junkies and we need the stuff that crude gives us.

800 million people will soon be able to buy little scooters in India and about a billion more in China will do the same (including buying ultra-polluting autos) and Kyoto will be just another dream someone had long ago. They will face zero regulations and we will continue to carry the heaviest on the planet.

We - by our greed - engineered this. Every time we got a supposed great deal at a 'Big Box Store' we were screwing our children's future. Eventually this will lead to war and unbridled land rape.

Seems to me there was a minor conflict in the Pacific about 70 years ago over the same thing.:rolleyes:

Get used to it, childrens. Buy a scooter from India and enjoy your 90 minute commute to work.:cool:

...........................and the Democrats will gain seats in the houses this coming election and quite possibly the presidency. The American people deserve to pay $5 agallon for letting this stupidity persist.

Some more good news.

Despite the best quality in the world and having more orders to fill than product we can make, my company just announced the closure of 1 machine out of 3. This will put 200 of 600 workers out of work. What is the cause??? OIL. I have worked here for under a year and our cost for oil has gone from $45MM/yr to over $60MM/yr.