[AT] Gasoline $

[RJK.Sr]

Don't know if this is true or not but I keep hearing that most of Alaskan crude
gets shipped to Asia.   It's considered too dirty by EPA standards to be 
used here..

Richard
West Michigan

On 31 Aug 2005 at 23:54, Dudley Rupert wrote:

> This is not political ether (so please don't try and make it such) but just
> an observation -
> 
> I was just reading part of an interview that a Sunoco executive in Colorado
> gave to a News outlet earlier today.  He said that if the US had more
> refinery capacity it would certainly alleviate some of the short-term stress
> on the market that is caused when a refinery is shut down for maintenance or
> when a disaster strikes it.  And he noted that there hasn't been a new
> refinery built in the US in the last 25 years.  But he went on to say that
> our bigger problem is long term and it is the lack of an adequate supply of
> crude.
> 
> If as a nation we are unwilling - for whatever reason - to explore/drill for
> new sources of crude (for example, in ANWAR or the Santa Barbara channel)
> and to build more nuclear power plants to help solve our near term energy
> needs and to make a national commitment (like the Kennedy commitment to put
> a man on the moon by the end of the sixties) to finding alternative energy
> sources then it seems to me we shouldn't be surprised when we see the
> numbers we do on the gas pumps.  A barrel of crude contains 33 gallons and
> with crude trading at 65 to 70 dollars a barrel it means that when a crew
> docks a tanker and starts loading it costs them 2 dollars a gallon.  Adding
> in the shipping costs, refinery costs, federal and local gas taxes and a
> little markup for the retail station it's not surprising that the first
> digit on the gallon cost at the pump is fast becoming a "3".
> 
> Since the first of the summer I've bought 27 cans of gas and 4 cans of
> diesel to run my hobby tractors ... I think I may have to permanently park
> them and start looking for a hybrid antique tractor.
> 
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
> 
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of David Holcombe
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:17 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Gasoline $
> 
> On my 25 mile ride home from town this afternoon.
> 
> 6 different stations 6 different prices
> 
> $2.59
> $2.68
> $2.79
> $2.71
> $3.05
> $2.68
> 
> I'm not trying to get political here but, we are being robbed and our
> government does not care.
> 
> My dad has been telling me for over 20 years that my children
> will live to see a time when there will be no middle class in America.
> 
> 
> 
> David Holcombe in NW AL
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