Joel Walker wrote:

> the greedy bastards around Tuscaloosa, Alabama have raised gasoline
> prices 20 cents since this morning ... related to the NYC bombing, you
> think???!!!
>
>  are we stupidly to expect all
> middle-east governments to suddenly raise their prices on oil???
> oooh! oooh!! i know!!! it's the Alaskans!!!! :(
>

Yes!!! It's all the Alaskans fault!! They closed the tap on the Alaska
Pipeline so we couldn't get any. (actually that oil could not be sold to
refineries  in the USA - that was the agreement when the pipeline was
built)

So, we need to drill in ANWR to get some oil, right?.  But the real
Alaskans don't want that pipeline or drilling in ANWR. There is only a
drop in the bucket so to speak, when compared to our real needs. Besides
that the Cook Inlet Oil Fields just out of Anchorage are nearly depleted.
The Alaskans will need their oil to maintain themselves, especially since
they don't import much in the way of oil products. And besides, they have
a refinery on the Kenai Peninsula that supplies all their needs for
cracked fuels.The oil comes from the Cook inlet oil fields, is cracked,
and refined fuels are pushed through a pipe to Anchorage for consumption,
storage and distribution.

Yet theirs prices took a big jump......and they get their oil at home.

Greedy , those oil companies!