Yes I heard in the news the last few days that surveys show that people are choosing gasoline over food. I'm not sure how they arrive at that, but it is interesting.

I personally don't deny or begrudge anyone making profit. When they make too much profit, the free enterprise system will catch up with them. If it is possible to do so, someone else will decrease pricing and take away part of their business. This is how free enterprise works. If you deny anyone a profit, America as we know it will cease to exist. That experiment was tried in the USSR and failed.

And YES, the environmental extremists have put so many restrictions on refinery construction that it would be unprofitable to build a refinery and make money with it. Notice the word EXTREMIST. No one wants a dirty environment, but the extremists take it beyond practicality. I consider myself an environmentalist. I DON'T consider myself an EXTREMIST.

Have a great day,