Gas.........

[NedFlanders]

Record profits by gas/oil companies every report..............I myself would not mind paying more if it was needed..........But with record profits by everyone involved we know it is just to make more money..........There have been no new us refineries built since the 70's..............tree huggers and enviornmentalist whack jobs keep the red tape so thick not even bill gates would waste his money trying to cut thru it..........one of the last companies that tried spent 5 or 6 years in court trying to clear the red tape and just gave up..............

[GeoFisher]

Record profits by gas/oil companies every report..............I myself would not mind paying more if it was needed..........But with record profits by everyone involved we know it is just to make more money..........There have been no new us refineries built since the 70's..............tree huggers and enviornmentalist whack jobs keep the red tape so thick not even bill gates would waste his money trying to cut thru it..........one of the last companies that tried spent 5 or 6 years in court trying to clear the red tape and just gave up..............

Red Tape and TREE HUGGERS.........you're RIGHT..........After the OIL embargo of the 70's we had over 150 Nuclear projects in some phase of development. Even around here.........You remember Marble Hill.....Well Three Mile Island KILLED any chance of EVER building a new plant.

If we had built those 150 nuclear plants, we'd use about 30% less fuel OIL. THAT would have eliminated the NEED for additional refineries.

FRANCE uses 80% NUCLEAR energy. While they **** at pretty much EVERYTHING, I think they got this one right.

Later,

Geo

[apb]

Yep, my fishing has changed some over the last year or so. I still hit Cumberland, but not as much as usual. More along the lines of going when things are looking good and only hitting it for specific parts of the season. Doing more creek fishing close to home. $10 in gas and I get two trips to the creek and one way to work. That would not get me far to Cumberland!

We've needed VIABLE alternative fuel sources for years. May be this time we'll get serious about it. Anyone remember Carter on TV back in the late 70's saying we needed to lessen the amount of oil/gas we used and work on alternative fuel sources? To bad we did not listen very well then....

Andrew