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To: JDN who wrote (135513)	8/31/2005 7:28:02 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793955

I have always despised those envirowhackos that inhibited us like this, now they have created a National catastrophe. I have to agree with about 90% of what you say. I was amazed when i visited a creek many years ago behind the lube plant and found you could see bottom in the water where tankers came in. It was such a great feeling! on the other hand , states holding off drilling and production for natural gas. and oil doesn't make sense when we know it is sitting there and we have the means to get it safely. It doesn't makes sense to have nine or twelve different grades of gasoline , running various more costly cuts in production, and distribution. it doesn't make sense to allow industry and electric utilities to avoid envirowackos laws for cleaner environment by not making investments to help clean up enviroment but to switch to alternate fuels that are cleaner burning. Like home heating and natural gas .. this 25% increase in demand has cost considerable dislocation of a balance in demand instead of them making the investments to burn heavy fuels, coal by installing smoke stack cleaners, scrubbers etc. I expect if they ran the dcf's now vs ten twenty years ago the investments would have paid out by now and we would have avoided the shortages in oil and natural gas to a great extent. Same with the refiniers , wackos wouldn't let them maintain or upgrade areas in a refinery without bringing the complete refinery up to current environmental standards and thus caused the closing of many mariginal profitable refineries. the poor and middle income people are paying through the nose for poor judgement by large corporations and gov in the last two decades and continue today by dropping drilling off the coast from the energy bill.