And dozens have been shut down by the oil companies. Tight supplies keep prices higher. There is no incentive for them to build more.
The high price of their product is the incentive to build more refineries.
Ever hear, “Buy low sell high”? When your product is selling at an all time high you push EVERTHING you can out onto the market.
How many investigations have there been to determine if the oil companies have been gouging the American consumer? They all have concluded that they were not.
I started this thread KNOWING that the answer to the high cost of gasoline was TO MANUFACTURE MORE GASOLINE!
As for the environment, the environment will NEVER be clean enough for the environmental extremists. Everyone wants clean air, clean water and not a ruined environment. Going to extremes on this will most certainly ruin the American economy. Whether there is a Grand Conspiracy on this with millions of “useful idiots” is besides the fact that this course WILL MOST DEFINATELY ruin the American economy.
Madeline Albright as Secretary of State, “The world would be a safer place if the United States was not a superpower.” I am paraphrasing, I need that quote! Help me find it.