Dear Armond;

ANY private business operates based on what the law allows it to do & how it operates.

Since WWII the Feds. have consistantly made it more profitable for them (Oil Co.) to do business with OPEC rather than R & D here. This is a multi faceted legal configuration covering their total operation(s).

Your right we've needed more refinery(s) for more than 20 years. But when several bills were in Congress to resolve this shortage the Clinton Administration in league with environmental extreamists blocked them all.

This is not to say that the "Bill & HIll gang" are to blame for it all.


John M., I.I. #3370

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going". -Anon