Post by Jack
Despite their high tax, the cost of gasoline in Mexico is still about 70 cents per gallon cheaper than here. Diesel is an average of 11% less than their regular and that is the real bargain. Here diesel costs more than premium which makes no sense at all. In Mexico gas stations sell fuel at the same price anywhere in the country, it’s a fixed commodity.
Almost anywhere in the US the pump price is going to be less than it is here in California. You will actually get a better fuel and thus better MPG if you buy Oregon gasoline. Our California formulation makes for lousy gasoline and you can thank our environmentalist lobby for that too. Remember the MTBE fiasco? That stuff caused pollution and cost more and it didn’t help anything. It was a total waste of money. This is small stuff compared to the real rip off, please read on:
Gasoline prices jumped over 10% in the last 30 days…ever wonder why? It’s because they can, they (OPEC) have a monopoly and so do the Big 5 oil producers in the USA. Meanwhile our environmental lobby is blocking drilling for oil in lonely places like ANWR (a frozen barren wilderness in Alaska) and many off shore locations from Florida to California.
Florida has a vast reserve of oil and gas, but we can’t drill for it! The Cuban’s (just 90 miles away) can and they are with the help of the Chinese and Indian governments. And there goes our oil and gas.
We have more than enough drilling locations within the USA that have vast amounts of oil and natural gas that would last us for the next 200 years and those are only the known reserves, but it’s all blocked by democrats like Obama and Hillary, so the end result is you pay big time at the pumps and it’s only going to get worse.
You want some facts about the ANWR reserve? Check this out, you’ll be stunned: “The Coastal Plain lies between two known major discovery areas. About 65 miles to the west of the Coastal Plain, the Prudhoe Bay, Lisburne, Endicott, Milne Point, and Kuparuk oil fields are currently in production. Approximately 1.5 million barrels of oil a day are produced from these fields, representing 25% of our domestic production. To the east of the Coastal Plain, major discoveries have been made in Canada, near the Mackenzie River Delta and in the Beaufort Sea. U.S. Geological Survey – estimated the Coastal Plain could contain up to 17 billion barrels of oil and 34 trillion cubic feet of natural gas!
U.S. Department of Interior – 1987. After several years of surface geological investigations, aeromagnetic surveys, and two winter seismic surveys (in 1983-84 and 1984-85), the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), in its April, 1987 report on the oil and gas potential of the Coastal Plain, estimated that there are billions of barrels of oil to be discovered in the area. DOI estimates that “in-place resources” range from 4.8 billion to 29.4 billion barrels of oil. Recoverable oil estimates ranges from 600 million barrels at the low end to 9.2 billion barrels at the high end. They also reported identifying 26 separate oil and gas prospects in the Coastal Plain that could each contain “super giant” fields (500 million barrels or more).
U.S. Geological Survey – 1998. The most recent petroleum assessment prepared by the USGS in 1998 (OFR 98-34), increased the estimate for technically recoverable mean crude oil resources. ”
A North Dakota field holds at least 4 billion barrels of oil and possibly much more. But its Democratic senator demonstrates his party’s schizophrenia on energy, preaching independence while doing nothing to achieve it.
The ocean between the tip of Florida and Cuba is oil rich. A US Geological Survey report published last year estimates that 4.6 billion barrels of oil and 9.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas are within that zone,
It is believed that we have discovered about 50% of the worlds known oil reserves. Of those we extract about 30-40% of what is in the ground due to our primitive drilling techniques. In otherwords, many abandoned fields contain vast amounts of oil that was too difficult to recover with the old technology.
Q. Why do you keep voting in democrats who keep blocking drilling?