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Originally posted by NuTroll
I dont think the high costs are due to labor but a refinery shortage.
There hasn’t been a major new refinery in the United States since 1976, and experts say none is on the horizon. Refineries are expensive, and nobody likes having a big, smelly refinery near his or her back yard. But another reason you won’t see any refineries springing up soon is that oil companies like things the way they are: Their refineries are operating near capacity, so they sell practically every drop of fuel they make.
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Insufficient inventories of domestically refined gasoline contribute to high prices and spark fears about gas shortages, as they did last month
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Because demand for gasoline is greater than what the refineries can produce in many cases, refineries can charge more for gasoline.
Originally posted by Phaethor
So basically If we did outsorce the refining of oil to the countries we get the oil from, they can do it ALOT cheaper than we can,
Originally posted by Phaethor
Maybe the term Outsourcing was the wrong word.
What I am suggesting is rather than Operating expensive, pollutting oil refineries here in the US, we force Oil Companies to have that process done prior to importing into the US.
Let the originating country absorb the refining costs, at a level lower than would be here.
Originally posted by Ambient Sound
Your proposal would in effect give foregn countries another weapon to harm the US with. Why would we give another portion of our nessisary energy infrastructure to someone who might one day use it against us by restricting access to the facility, closing it down, or leaving it unsecured?
Bad, bad idea, IMO.
Originally posted by Nygdan
To bring down oil costs? Why not just loosen up the taxes on oil?
Originally posted by Nygdan
This would also increase the US's foreign dependance, not only for the crude, but for the refined product itself.