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<blockquote data-quote="buzzgun" data-source="post: 198554" data-attributes="member: 6372"><p>There are/were a whole lot of people who agree with Obama, Hillary, Sarah Brady, Hitler and Osama Bin Laden too.......doesn't make them right.....</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>NOW we are getting somewhere! I don't think it's as simple as you make it sound, but we can agree that all those things would help. Oil companies WANT to build new refineries, but environmental regulations and tree huggers make the cost so high that a new refinery wouldn't pay for itself! Oil companies, like every other business, exist to make a profit......PERIOD! They won't build a new refinery if it won't make money.......Oil companies WANT to drill in Alaska and off the coasts......they aren't the hold-up, once again, it's the government and the tree huggers!</p><p></p><p>Ethanol is a joke.....alcohol contains fewer BTUs per gallon that gasoline.....so you have to burn more of it to produce the same power......many vehicles will see 25% or more reduction in fuel mileage running E85......and the price of corn goes up while we pay more for the less efficient fuel.......not to mention that many experts agree that it currently takes more energy to make ethanol than it saves.......ethanol is only a good deal when we use something other than food to make it!</p><p></p><p>It would also help if soccer moms wouldn't drive their kids to school in gas 12mpg SUVs everyday when a school bus is provided by our tax dollars. It would also help if people would combine necessary trips and eliminate unnecessary ones. It would help ( and this is coming) if people bought the most efficient vehicle that would still do the job they need done......obviously, it would be foolish to try to pull a stock trailer with a 4 cylinder toyota pickup......but it's even more foolish to use a 1 ton 4X4 diesel pickup to haul the kids back and forth to school.....and I see that all the time where I live!</p><p></p><p>As long as the majority of Americans are willing to pay the price and refuse to change their habits (conserve), demand will increase and the price of fuel will rise......when it hurts enough that we really conserve.....demand will drop and prices will decline.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buzzgun, post: 198554, member: 6372"] There are/were a whole lot of people who agree with Obama, Hillary, Sarah Brady, Hitler and Osama Bin Laden too.......doesn't make them right..... NOW we are getting somewhere! I don't think it's as simple as you make it sound, but we can agree that all those things would help. Oil companies WANT to build new refineries, but environmental regulations and tree huggers make the cost so high that a new refinery wouldn't pay for itself! Oil companies, like every other business, exist to make a profit......PERIOD! They won't build a new refinery if it won't make money.......Oil companies WANT to drill in Alaska and off the coasts......they aren't the hold-up, once again, it's the government and the tree huggers! Ethanol is a joke.....alcohol contains fewer BTUs per gallon that gasoline.....so you have to burn more of it to produce the same power......many vehicles will see 25% or more reduction in fuel mileage running E85......and the price of corn goes up while we pay more for the less efficient fuel.......not to mention that many experts agree that it currently takes more energy to make ethanol than it saves.......ethanol is only a good deal when we use something other than food to make it! It would also help if soccer moms wouldn't drive their kids to school in gas 12mpg SUVs everyday when a school bus is provided by our tax dollars. It would also help if people would combine necessary trips and eliminate unnecessary ones. It would help ( and this is coming) if people bought the most efficient vehicle that would still do the job they need done......obviously, it would be foolish to try to pull a stock trailer with a 4 cylinder toyota pickup......but it's even more foolish to use a 1 ton 4X4 diesel pickup to haul the kids back and forth to school.....and I see that all the time where I live! As long as the majority of Americans are willing to pay the price and refuse to change their habits (conserve), demand will increase and the price of fuel will rise......when it hurts enough that we really conserve.....demand will drop and prices will decline....... [/QUOTE]
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