Will a fed gas tax freeze help you?

[Bunky]

Re: Will a fed gas tax freeze help you?

As I said the governemnt makes more per gallon than the oil companies......
We have plenty of oil and we know it is too. We just can't drill thanks to the eniviro people.


Kelly

They can blame everything on the environmentalists but I hope no one believes it. The cost is based upon a worldwide price. The oil companies are NOT going to sell oil for less so even if we had plenty, the price would still be high.

[kellyinkc]

Re: Will a fed gas tax freeze help you?

Well considering we KNOW where the oil is, Anwar is OFF limits due to the enviro
lobby, Drill off the coast? Nope! Moratorium on drilling off the coasts. Enviro says it is bad.
China BTW is drilling off Cuba.....

Then there is this recent discovery of oil:

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/04/10/north-dakota-oil-discovery-called-biggest-in-u-s.aspx

No new refinery has been built in the past 30 years.

http://www.winchesterstar.com/article_details.php?ArticleID=2849

Besides making money is the American way.

Kelly

[Bunky]

Re: Will a fed gas tax freeze help you?

I think you are closer to the real issue in regards to refineries as the bottle neck in the US market. Even if we tapped every available area, the price is not going to go down until the world market price changes although it could help our trade imbalance.

[kellyinkc]

Re: Will a fed gas tax freeze help you?

I think you are closer to the real issue in regards to refineries as the bottle neck in the US market. Even if we tapped every available area, the price is not going to go down until the world market price changes although it could help our trade imbalance.

Bingo~! Plus the value of the dollar is not helping.
Add in the boutique fuels in each EPA region and you have a mess. There are, IIRC ,18 different blends of gas. And each one can't be used in the other regions.

kelly

[DFTowel]

Re: Will a fed gas tax freeze help you?

...I buy gas at Big Apple, or Hess which are both AMERICAN refineries, and AMERICAN GAS.

It is cheaper, same quality, and is not dependant on foreign influences.

You need to read up on how gasoline is distributed. All gasoline in the USA flows through common shared pipelines. The gas goes from the docks or the refineries to holding tanks which then distribute the fuel through the pipelines. Everyone's gas, foreign and domestic, is mixed together... everyone's. Federal standards ensure that all the fuel is the same so when they get mixed there can't be a degradation if one or more suppliers is below spec. When the fuel arrives at distribution points throughout the US it's all the same mix. At this point fuel trucks from Shell, Hess, Gulf, Citgo, etc. fill up and at this point is when additives are put in per each company's specs. These trucks then deliver to their respective gas stations. After all the major companies fill up along come the discounters who buy what's left at a lower price.

In a nutshell the gas in your car is a mixture of US, Arab, Venezuelan, and other origins, the only difference between stations are the additives.