feederband wrote:azsnowman wrote:WELL....we KNOW who to THANK for this
Let's see, $2.35 for 87%, $2.45 for medium and $2.55 for PREMIUM

It's costing the city of Pinetop $75 a week for my patrol car, take that and times it x10 other patrol cars

.....wonder how much the city council will raise sales tax NOW
Dennis

Who are we thanking. The oil company's? OPEC? Environmentalist? Us for driving to much in are SUV'S. Maybe China for throwing away their bikes and buying cars. I think there are many factors and it's only going to get worse if we don't start pumping oil in area's that we control.
We can pump until the cows come home, but we don't have the refineries to process crude into usable products, thanks to EPA and OSHA. As to foreign oil, it comes in as "sweet crude" which still needs to be refined.
As of right now, we have only 14 refineries, two of which are inoperable.
We need at least 30 to meet demand.