The Boise Weekly. The Boise Weekly! That's who's covering the story! In any other outlet that I'm seeing covering this(including Fox) the shutting down of refineries is treated as some secondary matter? It's not hard to make this connection.
And nowhere do I see the role of government, Obama, Cass Sunstein, and regulation being highlighted.
How can coverage be this skewed, even in what's supposed to be 'our media'?
Your link is bad.
Do you have a working link to the full article?
Meanwhile, the drumbeat of Bolshevik Dictator Baby-Doc Barak continues to grow louder - - - .
See Charles Murray's book "Coming Apart" for the answer. The short and dirty is that "the media" is part of "the new upper class" which has isolated itself from the rest of America and has RADICALLY different (mostly eurosocialist) ideas.
We now have more refining capacity than we use. The many years of upgrading and expanding existing refineries, combined with our falling demand, has left us with an excess of refining capacity. We are now a net exporter of refined products (diesel, jet fuel, etc) because we make more than we use.
We still import ~9 million barrels per day of crude oil. The cost of the crude oil is the reason gasoline, diesel, etc is so high.
The thing about gas prices is, you can try and bury the news on page C12 if you want to, but people are aware, even people who don’t have cars and have to listen to people bitch when the want to bum a ride. Gas prices can’t be spun, seasonally adjusted or ignored. And the administration knows it.
And where is this added cost coming from? I suspect the Gov't is "there to help", once again. A company exists to create a profit, and if it cannot create a profit - it will cease to exist. Because these refineries are not closing down for "maintenance" - you cannot say that this is a huge big-oil plan to jack the price of gasoline up. When a plant permanently closes it's doors we lose capacity, we lose the ability to regain that capacity, we lose jobs and the price of gas goes up higher - increasing the cost of doing business - and causing further job erosion.
And, IMHO, we can largely thank the Environmentalists for this, as a huge amount of the cost of running these plants, is meeting goals arbitrarily set forth by a party without any financial interest in the success of these companies.
And where is this added cost coming from? I suspect the Gov't is "there to help", once again. A company exists to create a profit, and if it cannot create a profit - it will cease to exist. Because these refineries are not closing down for "maintenance" - you cannot say that this is a huge big-oil plan to jack the price of gasoline up. When a plant permanently closes it's doors we lose capacity, we lose the ability to regain that capacity, we lose jobs and the price of gas goes up higher - increasing the cost of doing business - and causing further job erosion.
And, IMHO, we can largely thank the Environmentalists for this, as a huge amount of the cost of running these plants, is meeting goals arbitrarily set forth by a party without any financial interest in the success of these companies.
Just part of the Obama poverty dynamic. Deficit spending, record borrowing, unsustainable debt, war on carbon energy sources, dollar printing, unfunded entitlements, business killing EPA and Dept. of Energy rules and regulations, high taxes and look what you get.Fools a lot of people. Obama is the most evil and bizarre man to hold the Presidency. Given a billion dollar reelection fund directed at muddled voters in battleground states, combined with monumental fraud, this clown parade may continue.
Gasoline prices have gone up for 20 days in a row.
Refineries generally shut down in march for repair work and prices go up. But its still ok to blame the government.
Could the problem be that the price of oil (the raw material used by the refineries) is so expensive, relative to the price of the final product (gas and diesel) that it is not cost effective to operate?
I don’t want to be a fly in the ointment, but aren’t we now EXPORTING refined petroleum? They cite economic reasons but why would Sunoco close a refinery now, when over-all world-wide demand is high? Is it the location (hard to ship gasoline to China from Idaho)? I would think they would be making tons of money.
Will somebody please explain this to Bill O’Reilly?
WRONG oh great pretender, very WRONG. You have not got an Army big enough to defeat the American people if they decide you have to go.
To be fair, it’s really a Wall Street Journal article, reported on by this paper, but the WSJ article is behind a subscription firewall.
Demand for gasoline HAS FALLEN DRASTICALLY. It is now at the same level it was 2002! We are in an economic depression. Hello? Except for exports there is simply NO PLACE TO PUT THE GAS. PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY IT. THEY HAVE NO JOB.