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Environment & Energy

earthside

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1. Why?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 12:02 PM

Mar 2012

I keep reading everywhere that the U.S. is now exporting refined petroleum products.

If there is so much gasoline that it can be sold abroad, then we must not have a supply problem, right?

Or is the truth that the oil refining corporations can drive up the price here at by selling at a higher price to other countries?

So any gasoline supply shortage here is totally manufactured.

Why would the Obama administration then ask Saudi Arabia to boost oil output?
Furthermore, we asked for those sanctions on Iran, we should have to live by the consequences, right?

And who believes that Saudi Arabia really has spare capacity anymore?

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