Mr. Williams, you're obviously a smart guy, but you're making a false statement and writing as if you hadn't read what I had posted.
*Your* point was that workers need cheap gasoline to get to their jobs at small and large businesses, and that the way to get them cheap gasoline was to open up more areas of the country to drilling so we would have cheap gasoline from domestic sources. I was not offering an alternative solution to the problem you had identified (i.e., not enough cheap gasoline for American workers), and I never said anything about not drilling. All I pointed out was that your "solution" wasn't a solution at all to the problem you identified; domestic oil (and all it's refined derivatives, including gasoline) aren't cheaper just because they were exploited from domestic sources. Oil is a fungible product; its price is dictated not by where it is originally located, but by whatever the global market for that product is at any particular point in time. When you read that sentence, immediately above, does it look like it says "We shouldn't drill and get oil to the refinery"? Is that how you read it? Again, you're obviously a smart guy, even if reflexively oppositional, so I don't get why you made that stuff up, assert that I wrote it, and then put me down for writing it. How does that make any sense? *** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > > > > > The key words here are "get it to the refinery". > > > > Marek: > > The key words in your statement were "so people can > > have cheap gasoline". My point was your solution to > > provide cheap gasoline is no solution at all. > > > You're not making any sense - how are you going to get > ANY gasoline if you don't get oil to the refinery? > > Your solution is to NOT drill and get oil to the > refinery? Go figure. > > "You'd think with gas prices topping $4 and consumers > crying uncle, Congress would be moving fast to spur > development of a domestic oil resource so vast - 800 > billion barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, > Utah and Wyoming alone - it could eventually rival > the oil fields of Saudi Arabia." > > Read more: > > 'DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION -- Not a goal, apparently:' > Posted by Glenn Reynolds > Instapundit, June 09, 2008 > http://tinyurl.com/5heddm >
