Interesting thing on the news last night.  Seems most of the US refineries
are right at max output and some are actually pushing past safety limits to
meet demand.  No new refineries have been built since the 70s.  The
restrictions on where and how to build them has made it way to expensive to
build a new one and takes to many years to do the paperwork.  To build a new
refinery they would need a crystal ball that sees ten years into the future
and hundreds of millions to fight the green people and meet the current
placement laws.  Part of the Bush fuels rules proposed would open old Air
Bases for development by refiners.  This actually makes sense because a lot
of these bases were also on the pipe lines.
Jimt

On 4/28/05 10:21, "Jim Felder" <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:

> Don't forget that China is getting big into agribusiness and is an
> exporter of farm goods now. Of course all that runs on diesel, as it
> does in India, to name two growing, diesel-based economies. And with
> snow just off the ground in parts of the US, a cold spring also pits
> heating oil against diesel supplies.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Brent Berisford wrote:
> 
>> The bottom line.
>>    Diesel in the past has always been the better value. Trucking firms
>> and train better bang for the buck. The largest problem with diesel
>> and cost at the moment is that the war machine runs on diesel not
>> gasoline.We have created a demand by supporting the war in the middle
>> east. Just my 2 cents. The demand for diesel high mileage cars also
>> proves that diesel is the smarter choice at least in my local commuter
>> market.
>> Brent
>> 
> 
> 

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