Doc-Holiday - 9/21/2005 1:01 PMNow for a rant to end all rants and please follow. America used to use only its own oil up to about 50 years ago. With rising pressure from ecologial activists American Policy on oil production was hardened against oil companies, No more oil refineries could be build without SIGNIFICANT amounts of red tape so harsh that no new Oil Refineries have been built in America for nearly 50 years. Our current refineries are running under outdated technology and are beyond their operational years. Why not rebuild them? You can't, Enviornmental Policy is so restrictive it prevents any beneficial upgrades (a company won't upgrade if it will hurt them a great deal more than help).Now what about those EVIL American oil companies? yeah they suck huh? and the President? yeah he's got SECRETE DEALS WITH THEM YEAH! Oh shut the blankity up.
This artificial restriction in supply has raised our gas prices, on top of that our Friends the Democrats LOVE tax hikes... after all taxes solve everything, so we have insane taxes on our gas. Then the additives also have to be refined and added, and taxed. What about the Government? Well, they raise gas taxes every year to pay for more road work, and so that they can punish the EVIL oil Companies. All by our happy consent, year after year raising those taxes. The companies won't innovate or change what they are doing because it's just prohibitive to do so. After all, the Democrate moto is Government can do it better. Oil companies make their profit NOT on gas but on the millions of OTHER things that are made from crude oil.
Crude Oil? What does it make? Gas, deisel... uh... plastic? Yes, and more. Food, synthetics, platistics, lip balm, Asphalt, car parts, computer parts, clothing, shoes, office supplies, medical supplies, the list litteraly goes on for pages. Well... um, the gas stations are cheating us! yeah... maybe, some probably are. But just a the Oil Industry doesn't make it's money on gas (who could? just look at the rediculous regulations) Gas Stations sell gas with just enough mark up to keep the pumps running, the food and store supplies generate the largest amount of revenue for the Stations, the gas just brings customers.
While were talking about Crude Oil, can anyone tell me what it is? Oh! it's dead dinasour fossils, that's why we call it "Fossil Fuel" Right?... uh.. right? Well... no... maybe.. but, we don't know what Crude Oil is. Now your saying, I read that in a very official looking book! I remember it in school! Yes... right next to the chapter talking about the "Theory" of Evolution as being solid scientific fact.
Fact is most people have a "sence of knowing" about Crude Oil and like Evolution , it's just enough of a feeling to keep you from looking at other possibilities. Allow me to elaborate a moment and draw a few conclusions. First, If Cude Oil was realy decomposed animal material, then we could replecate it's production just like diamonds and other biological synthetics. Well, no. To date we have no idea how to Synthesise Crude Oil, in fact the "Fossil Fuel" came from a marketing Campaign some years ago to tie in with the exploding rise in Evolution and dinasour phenomina in our culture.
Now, allow me to make some logical extensions. If we don't know what Crude Oil is, then we don't know where it comes from. We know rightly WHERE it is, but we don't know what causes it. IF Crude Oil is NOT a one time biological mishap then at some time in the past the PRODUCTION of Crude Oil had to begin. It is not impossible to conclude that Crude Oil is a Geological Phenomina with unknown causes and a very KNOWN result. Also if this production happnened in the past it is not impossible to assume that production could very well still be accouring since we DONT know WHAT it is, or WHERE it comes from. You might say But we do! Animals! Dinasours! well... no.. I don't think so. It's a possiblility but a remote one. Consider the amount of fuel pulled already. With only one known accourance of a world wide disaster there was only so much life on earth when it happened... in order for the amount of oil to equal the amount of flesh of animals then we are looking at a world stacked like cord wood. No I think another possibility has been left unconsidered. You may say IT TOOK MILLIONS OF YEARS! yes.. and they would have decompsed LONG before the turned to oil, only the animals that were in the disaster and under certain conditions would have changed. The probability is to remote, the answer lay in something far less fantastic. As it were, we don't know. Also if the phenomina of Crude Oil happened in the past, then it could certaintly being accouring in the present, allow me to shock you. It could very well be a "regenerating" or, continuing to be produced. NO! you say? well... oil fields DO produce more oil. that's why we can pump them for so long. Yes we can tap them to the bottom but there is still more sludge oozing in and in time, you can pump that too. Fields don't collapse... they just slow down in production when they are pumped for a long time.
Why don't we do more looking into it? Well, there are many political factions that would find a change in the accepted view of oil as a negative. Ecological Extreamists would not have the power to raise the funds they do every year by claiming limited resourses and Global Warming. Democrates would not be able to cry disaster EVERY FREAKING FOUR YEARS.
In summation, there are a GREAT deal of misconceptions of the nature of Crude Oil, of the American Government, of the way the world works. We run around knowing just enough to not know we don't know and we spout our unknowing so often. My political leanings you ask? Yes, I am an EVIL republican, yes I think we have a good man in office, no I don't think he's perfect, he's human. However I pay attention to the past and learn from history. There are a faction of people in America who would do well to see America lose it's power, it creates insecurity and causes the masses to clamour to them for protection.