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Originally posted by: chefantwon
So why hasn't the US built a refinery in 30+ years?
Because our existing refineries have added capacity and become more efficient, thoroughly satisfying demand.
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at gas prices of almost $4.00 a gallon? really?
Originally posted by: chefantwon
Why doesn't the President demand we drill for oil in ANWAR?
Because drilling there is currently illegal (it's ANWR, not ANWAR, with the "WR" standing for "Wildlife Refuge"), and because our energy demands are currently being met by existing sources such that we don't need to destroy that world-class natural ecological landscape.
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- really? and gas is almost $4.00 a gallon???
Originally posted by: chefantwon
Why can we drill more in the Gulf of Mexico?
We can drill there, drillers are drilling every day. What good would having them drill more do, when refiners are already operating almost to design capacity?
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- because when you don't build any new refineries and you have less of them, what happens when 1 of them has to be shut down? now you are producing less which helps to raise gas prices...
Originally posted by: chefantwon
Why can't we drill more off the coast of California?
Because Californians banned it within 3 miles of shore, and because there's not much will in DC to end the 32 year moratorium on federal leases outside that range. Such are the just consequences of huge disasters like the Santa Barbara spill in 1969: Californians don't want a repeat, and are willing to conserve and seek alternate energy sources to achieve it.
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- like solyndra? how that solar power grid doing for you?
Originally posted by: chefantwon
Why can't we drill more off the east coast?
What would you like us to drill for off the east coast? Oil? What oil? There are almost no proven reserves.
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Originally posted by: chefantwon
Why is there opposition to fracking?
Seriously?
Okay. Ground water contamination, risks to air quality, migration of gases and hydraulic fracturing chemicals to the surface, mishandling of waste, and the health effects of all these. As a start. - how many jobs have been created by fracking in the midwest?
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Originally posted by: chefantwon
Why don't you move to Europe where socialism is the norm?
Because socialism is the norm here in America too (social security, public schools, prisons, flood insurance, M1A2 Abrams tanks, medicare, libraries, bank deposit insurance, public roads, health inspectors, firemen). Might as well ask me why my love of baseball doesn't make me move to Japan.
Japan has baseball, earthquakes, cyclones, volcanoes, and tsunami's. You could march and protest the ocean for the ecological disasters it causes....
