[RightWhale]

Refineries are about 90% of capacity. Some of the big oil companies running the refineries do not produce all their oil themselves but have to buy it on the open market. They are being squeezed by the recently increasing price of crude. We see the $10 billion quarterly profit here and there but that is not industry-wide. Some of them are barely making it.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Well,unless the case is made to the American people that we’re going to need to build more refineries in the short term to solve our energy needs, it’s not going to happen. The environmentalists will keep democrats from supporting this. If the arguement is made that we’re going to build refineries and maintain them only until the oil and energy companies can replace oil it with bio-fuels, then we might have a shot neutralizing the liberal stranglehold on the congress.