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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (256639)7/3/2008 12:13:24 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 793866
 
Yes there is no practical economic result (except possibly a slight increase in costs if it makes for a less efficient, pattern of drilling, transportation, refining, and final distribution), but there is a political point. The politician gets seen (by the relatively ignorant) as doing something for American oil/gasoline consumers.