Gas prices are going up, there is no doubt about it. The causes are speculated to be many, but a primary one is lack of refineries. We need to refine the oil that comes out of the ground, it is a complicated, dirty process, but it needs to happen. But where would you build a big dirty refinery? I don't think anyone would volunteer to have one in their neighborhood.
But what if the price of gas and other commodities dropped significantly the closer you lived to a refinery? For example, the state that allows a refinery gets gas for half of the average for the rest of the country. (We are conveniently putting aside the geographic needs that a refinery has, like access to a lot of water.) Would citizens be more willing to have a refinery in the outskirts of their cities if it meant more jobs and cheaper gas? Will it come to that eventually?
We can't wait for green energy to pick up, that's just not happening fast enough. Another option, what about refining the refining process? Making it cleaner with less pollution and waste product? I'm sure people are working on this, but could we amp up the energy put into it?
But what if the price of gas and other commodities dropped significantly the closer you lived to a refinery? For example, the state that allows a refinery gets gas for half of the average for the rest of the country. (We are conveniently putting aside the geographic needs that a refinery has, like access to a lot of water.) Would citizens be more willing to have a refinery in the outskirts of their cities if it meant more jobs and cheaper gas? Will it come to that eventually?
We can't wait for green energy to pick up, that's just not happening fast enough. Another option, what about refining the refining process? Making it cleaner with less pollution and waste product? I'm sure people are working on this, but could we amp up the energy put into it?
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Do you feel like gas was cheaper in Salt Lake with the refinery just north of it?
a) I didn't know that was an oil refinery!
b) this is more like a hypothetical incentive that the hypothetical "they" could offer to get more refineries built. But maybe "they" don't want them built, they just want to continue charging us for the black gold we cannot live without.
Ah man, I thought this was going to be about the other kind of gas.
And I think The Hoard of Ecumenical Yodlers will not lower prices now that they see we will pay for them regardless. Why do we always plan to drive back to Utah during the highest gas price-times?
i have to agree with everything! we have enough natural gas in Utah and Colorado alone that the entire earth could use it for 100 years!!! if they would just figure it out already! we have plenty of resources dang politics! lol
Dear writer,
I wrote you an Answer to make you afraid. I´m beg for my worst english.
I´m comming from Germany. Nearer, I´m comming from Kaiserslautern. Its near Ramstein (Some of the US know this as the biggest US Army Depot and mititary airpurt outside the US.). I hav read an Article in my Newspaher here today, that the US peole arent afraid about Obama of because the gas price is getting up so much. Now I´v read your post.
I have read that the gas price is near 4$ per gallon. that are in germany (we have metric system) ca. 3,7 litres. So this is ca. 80 Eurocent per liter. We have here in Germany now an prize who is near 1,70 Euros per liter.
That might be for you that you have to pay (i have take a price from 1,70 €/liter and a course of 1,31$ for 1€)8,23 $ / Gallone gasolin!
That means that we in Germany pay mor than a double for gas as you in the US!
About that you should think...
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