What really pisses me off about this, are the revelations last month of BP discounting shipments of North Slope crude to export to Asia.Then stating there was a shortage so that they could up the prices in California.

The statement in the article Sinsull posted, that we are better off in the lower 48 due to the North Slope oil coming here,seems to me to be blatently false.Plus the fact that many of the oil fields in the US have not dried up,production was stopped because at one time it was cheaper to import than to produce.

As much as I like my cars, it is time to wean ourselves of the fossil fuel teat.

rr