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Just remember that some of us were teenagers when the last refinery was built in this country in 1976. Thanks to our GREEN leaning public these refineries are needing so much maintenance that they are off-line as much as they're on-line. Couple this with no off-shore drilling IN OUR WATERS or drilling in Alaska again thanks to the tree huggers we're certainly going to feel a massive bite at the pump this Summer.
My first summer in Texas was in 1994 and the price of oil was falling to less than the cost of the barrel it was stored in and yet nobody tried to help these guys. Now that oil is high - and the price is set by OPEC and the Chicago Mercantile Trade, not the oil producers - they're getting screwed by threatened profit taxes. What if Gold miners were this scrutinized? Thanks liberals, now there's no incentive to explore meaning prices continue to climb.
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