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Old Sep 3, 2005 | 1:12 am
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Originally Posted by HMizzle
I still think there should be a cap put on profits for the oil companies. That and we need to make it easier for companies to build more refineries. There is so much red tape it is damn near impossible and or costly to build a new refinery.
Interesting. These two positions seem to be the offspring of radically different ideologies. On one hand, the anti-oil company notion of capping their profits. On the other, the environmentally unfriendly desire for the proliferation of oil refineries.

With regard to your suggestion of a profit cap, may I (hypothetically) inquire as to what industry and, perhaps even more specifically, what business you work in? Because I'm sure you'd agree that those profits should be capped as well.

I hate expensive gas. But sometimes we need very loud alarm bells and red flags to warn us that it is a very finite resource. I suppose that's the silver lining with regard to our petroleum predicament.

On topic . . . CO will most certainly survive the year. And, in all likelihood, many years to come.
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