The reason gas prices are so high are because the following.....
1.WE having made a new refinery since 1972....that means that We have oil Sitting on our docks waiting to get refined but we have 30 somthin year old refineries and not enough of them.. why we cant build them 1 easy answer cause when we try to do somthing to help the economy like build a new refinery theres always that powerful voice saying it will hurt the enviornment and those people are called well i forgot the name of them so we will call them hippies...
2. we have enough oil in ALASKA ALONE for 50 years in the united states even with the rising population..but we cant drill there want to know why because the hippies say that it will disrupt the caraboo (elk kinda) mating season...since the oil pipe line has been built that goes thru alaska The caraboo have doubled in population...
3. china and india....both of these countrys pump out more than 25 million give or take a few million a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And now that these countrys are getting money they are buying cars, and cars take gas, well there country is now buying from the same place we buy from so we bid back and fowarth on each tanker of oil well they have lots of money over there so they bid big money and bush cant let us down and loose so every once and a while we get a tanker then they do and it relly dosent work out to well.....

What i say is go total marshall law on these hippies and just beat some sence into them. but that just my idea

No one worrie about oil shortages because the earth is not done making oil Old wells that your house used to get water out of well now we can get oil out of them but hippies wont let us dig any WHERE......and think the world is made of liek 70% water well under all that water IS OIL EVERY WHERE listin this will blow over It relly will it just takes time....hopefully!

Respond how you like this summary and go ahead and put your 2 cents in no one will make fun.

 

alot of good facts[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

i'm only 15 so i dont know how these gas prices are really affecting me personally but i sure know my parents dont like it and all those treehuggers can kiss my @ss...


they are so worried about everything, nothing will happen if we start drilling everywhere, and if it does then we'll stop, plain and simple as that


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but other then that good reasoning

 

Thank you for that decidedly biased and ill informed post. Nothing like calling everyone that disagrees with you a hippy, yet having a hippy as your avatar.

According to the NY times, ANWAR has somewhere between 4 and 10 billion gallons of oil depending on which survey you believe. The US uses 7 billion barrels a year, some how that doesnt add to 50 years of oil in my book. Personally I think that kind of oil field would be best used as a reserve in the unfortunate possibility that we are involved in a war that cuts our ability to import crude from the Eastern Hemisphere.

Even if we all start driving Prius' tomorrow we are still going to be dependant on foreign oil. Our only real hope for the future is to learn to extract the oil from the tar pits in Canada and Central/South America where there are reserves larger than what was originally found in the Middle East. Because you and I know that we arent going to be swapping over to alternative energies on a large scale anytime in the next few decades.

I'm not sure what your 3rd point was, its mostly incoherent babble to me. Saudi arabia alone pumps out 9 million barrels a day. And if you didnt notice China was just attempting to buy out one of our major oil companies.

 

I found this kinda interesting


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one at the time i didint know what one of those activists were called i forgot 2. my avatar is because he has long hair well i also have 12 inch hair3.alaska has alot more oil than where ever your reading at..

 

guys bush owns part of the oil companies. so what makes bush richer ,high priced gas. it has nothing to do with docks or anything like that. come on man do your home work this stuff. and it also keeps the hippies happie bush gets there vote and only **** drive electric cars oh he gets there vote to. bush is using this war as an excuse people are so caght by this jackass's lies that they dont see whats going on.

 

What's your source? One of Bush's speeches? LOL

 

no my world affair teacher

 

I think Im going to enjoy this if it doesnt get tossed.

Pretty much agree with you TecateKtx250lover. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Hi maddog56. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

thanks