Personal Gas Accounts?
Caption ...should be ...."don’t be down, think how fit all the walking will make you.”
This morning I saw on MSeryNBC ( but now I can’t find it so I have no link to refer to) that Iraq now has a gasoline shortage because, under Sadam, special permission was needed to own a car. Since his capture the number of cars has doubled. Iraq (mainly Baghdad) imports, YES!!! IMPORTS!!! 2 million gallons of gas per day because the refineries can not keep up. They are running at 70% capacity, kinda like ours, huh?
Since the BP plant in Texas City, Texas caught fire, yesterday, killed 14 and injured a hundred people, it produced 3% of the U.S. gas supply so you just gotta know that OUR price is going to not only going to jump it is going do backflips.
“That refinery, it’s about almost a 500,000 barrel a day refinery,” says Bob Bartlett, President of the Petroleum Marketers Association of Wisconsin, “It’s a good size refinery.”
Anyhoo...gas averages 0.05 per gallon, yep 5 cents per gallon in Baghdad. That’s what? less than $1 a fill-up?
They said that the refinery infrastructure requires additional upgrades of nearly 40 BILLION $$$$ to increase production by another 6 million gallons per day.
I wonder how our own refinery infrastructure could benefit from a 40 billion $$$ boost. Is it time for an Oil Company Bail-Out deal like the airlines and even General Motors got? I say yes!!! BUILD MORE GAS MACHINES DAMMIT!!!
Nickel Gas....wow what a concept. I wonder if UPS could ship 5 gallon jerry cans???Posted by DR@HDfixit
03/24/2005 at 02:59 PM
It is far past time to build more refineries. If memory serves, we have built none in the last 20 years or so. And that does not even touch the matter of supply. The ANWR drilling clearance, for one, is also long overdue.
The major problem seems to be the usual squalid lot of buglovers and frogkissers (whose true emotions, in my experience, add up to hatred of humanity, beginning with themselves).
We are long past any justifiable point of indulging these specimens. For decades, they have insisted on making our economic survival into an us-versus-them issue. So be it. They made the rules and they chose the ballpark.
Play ball!
I thought the time frame involved in the refinery building freeze was in the neighborhood of 30 years, not 20.
You may very well be right, JSThane. If so, that makes our problem even less excusable. Time to get on the ball!
03/24/2005 at 02:21 PM
