http://polyscience.org/2005/09/chain-email-gas-prices/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://polyscience.org/2005/09/chain-email-gas-prices/#comment-3367 I rather despise chain emails. Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:05:01 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=83#comment-3367 Some chain emails mentioned there, I see. Yeah, I've received some of those chain letters. Usually the best idea is to ignore them. Sometimes the prolific ones get reported to Snopes or other such sites, so that people may be made aware of them. Some chain emails mentioned there, I see. Yeah, I’ve received some of those chain letters. Usually the best idea is to ignore them. Sometimes the prolific ones get reported to Snopes or other such sites, so that people may be made aware of them.

]]> http://polyscience.org/2005/09/chain-email-gas-prices/#comment-211 polyscience.org » The problem of heavy crude Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:49:55 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=83#comment-211 [...] A few weeks ago I wrote about gasoline prices in the US, sharing one of the ideas about why they’re going up: China. Business Week has an article today about gas prices, and why the American public shouldn’t blame OPEC. They should blame the US refineries who cannot refine the crude available, because they’re not set up for it. In fact, the crude reserves in the US are higher than they have been in the past, while reserves of gasoline are somewhat lean, hence the higher-than-normal gas prices of late. Fact is, OPEC is willing to sell whatever its customers want. And those customers are turning up their noses at the 2 million barrels per day or so of heavy crude — most of it in Saudi Arabia — that OPEC is not pumping now. [...] [...] A few weeks ago I wrote about gasoline prices in the US, sharing one of the ideas about why they’re going up: China. Business Week has an article today about gas prices, and why the American public shouldn’t blame OPEC. They should blame the US refineries who cannot refine the crude available, because they’re not set up for it. In fact, the crude reserves in the US are higher than they have been in the past, while reserves of gasoline are somewhat lean, hence the higher-than-normal gas prices of late. Fact is, OPEC is willing to sell whatever its customers want. And those customers are turning up their noses at the 2 million barrels per day or so of heavy crude — most of it in Saudi Arabia — that OPEC is not pumping now. [...]

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