OT: Re: katrina ...

[Keith Antoine]

Ted Ozolins wrote:

> <Rant on>
> In western Canada, we export oil. Each thieving oil company owns their
> own oil fields. Saudi could burn up and blow away and that would have no
> impact on our oil supply. Yet, each time a Saudi burps, our gasoline
> prices go up. Our first major gas price increase was because the price
> of oil dropped and they were loosing money on their oil. That was
> followed by "the price of oil went up and now its costing them more for
> oil."  Then of course that lie was followed by " the demand for gasoline
> is so hight their refineries can not keep up". A friend of mine has
> worked for one of the refineries since the mid 80's has maintained that
> they haven't as of yet reached 30% of the refineries capacity.  The
> price at the pumps is fueled by lies not by demand. I do not blame the
> gas station operators (in Canada) for they  follow orders from their 
> companies. I blame the large oil companies for their greed and the
> gutless politicians for not standing up to them. Then again, why would
> they for doing so would mean a loss of a lot of donations during their
> election  campaign.  I find it completely distasteful that the greedy
> b**tards are using the misfortunes of others to line their pockets.
> <Rant off><double-layer flame suit on>
> 

What you describe, apart from having your own wells, is the identical 
situatuion here in Oz, as to pricing. We do have oil, however most was 
capped off in the sixties/seventies. Believe it to be machine grade oil 
as opposed to crude, on the otherhand we do have shale oil but it too is 
capped.


-- 
Keith Antoine AKA "Skippy" or 'Gandalf the beardless' Online with Dual 
boot Suse Linux 9.3 64bit OS
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia
Practising Registered Geriatric: Sometime Electronics Engineer: Brain in 
Storage: