PETROLPHOBIA (Page 44/66)
USFiero MAY 10, 08:55 PM
Well I suppose we'll see a bump after the shenanigans of the weekend. At least on the East Cost.
USFiero MAY 17, 09:44 PM
So, who all is seeing $3/gallon for regular?
maryjane MAY 17, 10:51 PM
$2.55 here
steve308 MAY 18, 08:56 PM

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Originally posted by USFiero:

So, who all is seeing $3/gallon for regular?



Arrived here about 5 minutes after the colonial pipeline shut down.........Don't expect it to go down especially since Memorial Day is right around the corner. Let's face it, nothing honors our veterans more then raising prices on fuel for no go reason other then to stick it to the public.
Hudini MAY 18, 10:11 PM
The last time this pipeline failed my city was during Hurricane Katrina. Overnight gas prices went to $5 a gallon. When the retail outlets were asked why the price jump they stated their wholesaler told them to do it. Although it annoys me personally, I do see where this would discourage scalpers and hoarders. At this level you only buy what you absolutely need.
rinselberg MAY 28, 10:40 AM
Say what?

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On Wednesday, the Biden administration defended in federal court the Willow project, a huge oil drilling operation proposed on Alaska’s North Slope that was approved by the Trump administration and is being fought by environmentalists. Weeks earlier, it backed former President Donald J. Trump’s decision to grant oil and gas leases on federal land in Wyoming. Also this month, it declined to act when it had an opportunity to stop crude oil from continuing to flow through the bitterly contested, 2,700-mile Dakota Access pipeline, which lacks a federal permit. . . .



Kafka-esque?

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The multibillion-dollar plan from ConocoPhillips to drill in part of the National Petroleum Reserve would produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day until 2050. It is being challenged by environmental groups who said the Trump administration failed to consider the impact that drilling would have on fragile wildlife and that burning the oil would have on global warming.

In a paradox worthy of Kafka, ConocoPhillips plans to install “chillers” into the permafrost — which is thawing fast because of climate change — to keep it solid enough to drill for oil, the burning of which will continue to worsen ice melt.

Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest of the United States. Arctic ecosystems are in disarray, sea ice is disappearing, sea levels are rising and the ground is thawing. . . .



Amy M. Jaffe remains nonplussed. Or is she actually "plussed"..? It's a tricky word. You could look it up--"nonplussed"--and try to come to your own conclusion.

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Amy M. Jaffe, director of the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, said she was not concerned that a handful of states are continuing fossil fuel production.

“To use an oil analogy, we’re not changing a steamboat. We’re shifting course of a giant supertanker. It’s not going to happen overnight,” Ms. Jaffe said, adding, “It’s a time-consuming and thoughtful process to move an entire country the size of the United States, with the complexity of the economy we have, to a major energy transition.”



"Biden’s Fossil Fuel Moves Clash With Pledges on Climate Change"
Lisa Friedman for the New York Times; May 28, 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/202...-climate-Willow.html
sourmash MAY 28, 11:22 AM
Gas prices are up almost a dollar since the coup in November.
USFiero JUN 01, 12:51 PM
Anyone in Los Angeles want to talk about the race to $10 a gallon?
2.5 JUN 01, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by USFiero:

So, who all is seeing $3/gallon for regular?



Its almost 3 bucks in MN and its about 3 in Wisconsin.
I remember over 4 and hope it doesnt go there or higher any time soon, some people gotta drive to work, some for work.

I wonder with GMs claim to stop making gasoline vehicles in the next 15 years what that will do to gas prices.
steve308 JUN 01, 06:00 PM
Jumped to an average of $2.999 when the pipeline was hacked. Everything is up and running but in a surprise to no one, prices have not retreated to the pre hack level of $2.759. On a good note the gas companies didn't have to go to the trouble of raising prices again for the Memorial day weekend. Expecting $3.25+ by end of June....Just a feeling based on DC politics.

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