It’s an international market. Those taxes you suggest won’t affect the price outside the US, but might increase the cost of petroleum products here. I’m generally not in favor of this type of government control of the markets.
Primarily affecting futures pricing. There was an expectation of additional capacity being developed but then was altered/delayed/eliminated. But it seems any situation that might impact oil production has an almost immediate effect on prices. Fear runs high on anything that might cause a disruption…
Amazing how just about a week ago he said he NEVER gets political in his comments and accused me and others for getting political.
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Heh heh. I don’t remember what I said a week ago but I’m sure Mike knows everything about me or so he think. Living in his head rent free as they say. Thing is about five of you folks talk about petroleum pricing as a disguise for politics but never mention the reality of five years ago.
Whatever that is pales in comparison to what happened on 1/6/21.
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Dig a little deeper son and you might find a different reality. Start with the pipe bomb investigations.
Alert, alert! Alternate reality alert! Forget what you saw with your eyes, heard with your ears, as it happened!!!
That man is not suitable for dog catcher. I can think of no individual who has done more serious, lasting damage to our country.
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@cdaquila Carolyn, time for a major cleanup!
Was that a political statement. Into the ditch? Pot calling kettle black? Can’t help yourself? Call mama?
You love poking around the edges, but not when somebody calls you on it. Too bad.
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Country to country, gas prices in dollars differ by 10 to one.
Very true. Higher than US prices result from higher taxes, while much lower than US prices result from government-mandated price controls. Some countries just about give it away.
I don’t take political opinions as personal insults so I’ll sit it out for a while. What a shame it
comes to this so often even on non political sites.
And thus, the reason you have ZERO respect from many people on this forum. Facts and truth is a foreign concept to you MAGAs.
It was just a normal guided tour…NOT
Speaking of fuel, even though the article doesn’t deal with petroleum…
I was listening to NPR back when we had the Solar eclipse a few months ago. And they were interviewing the head of Texas department of energy and how the solar eclipse was going to affect them. I was surprised to learn that 25% of energy generation in Texas was from Solar. They were ready for the eclipse by creating more power from other energy plants to accommodate the loss of their Solar power.
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Yes, we definitely need quick starting alternatives to solar and wind power for times that they are low. Natural gas provides that. NG power plants can be started quickly and offer a viable secondary power source when solar and wind aren’t available.
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One thing that’s being worked on are batteries. Large energy storage units.
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Yes, certainly batteries and in the meatime there are a lot of NG power stations that currently run full time and could eventually provide supplementary power until large batteries are more widely available and more attractively priced.