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In reply to the discussion: In a first, gas and other fuels are top US export [View all]greiner3
(5,214 posts)27. As was the hype of the Alaskan Pipeline;
That all that fuel would help the US's dependence on oil, all this rush to get the natural gas out of the ground will only benefit;
Wait for it,
Wait for it,
The large oil companies. That gas will be shipped where it will bring in the most profits; probably China, Japan or Europe. They pay a LOT more for this stuff than we do.
Follow the money.
BTW, nearly all the oil that was/is being taken out of the ground in Alaska is sold to Japan under agreements made, secretly, by Exxon and BP; go figure. It was secret because if word got out that this oil would not go to ease the fuel crunch then happening here, then the good, but in the end losing, fight environmentalists put up probably would have succeeded.
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I work in Oil Refining - I'm glad you read our reports however wrong the interpetation
FreakinDJ
Dec 2011
#29
U.S. refineries can take a tanker full of crappy low quality oil and turn it into excellent fuel.
hunter
Dec 2011
#8
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you one of the reasons fuel costs so much these days.
ixion
Dec 2011
#17
Yeah, it sucks, but it got me that "service connected" line on my VA card and a few dollars.
alfredo
Jan 2012
#46
Have you gone to the VA for that? My ears are fried from my years as Morse Intercept.
alfredo
Jan 2012
#47
Just started rereading The Unsettling of America Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry and this
jwirr
Dec 2011
#26
Yeah, we knew that. They are internationalists when it come to money. That national thing, well,
freshwest
Dec 2011
#31
Yet gas prices remain high. Because oil is an international commodity. Drill, baby ...
DirkGently
Jan 2012
#40