Re: Here we go again.....
- From: "Rocky Roads MWAS" <wookiee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:23:28 GMT
gashauler wrote in message ...
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>"Jack May" <jack.may@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> If this was planned, the companies would plan ahead of time to get ready
>>> for
>> it. The people that push this myth assume the oil companies will know
>> absolutely nothing about a major plan to stop buying for 48 hours. They
>> would have many options to prevent such a protest from doing any harm to
>> them.
>>
>>
>You just don't get it. Maybe it's because of your lack of knowledge on how
>the petroleum industry works. I don't mean for that to be an insult but
it's
>a fact that if you're not around the production aspects of a certain
company
>how could you know.
>
>It doesn't matter if the oil companies know or not. If they know that's
even
>better. The refinery must operate at full capacity to process the flow of
>crude. That's the most economical mode they can be in. They just can't
store
>the crude in tanks and wait.
>
>Sure they can do that for a small amount but not the amount if the
feedstock
>keeps coming in and nothing is being processed. And to shut down a refinery
>is something the oil companies don't want to do. That means several events
>will happen. The feedstock will be directed to another refinery. The
product
>will not be in the piping (a dangerous condition during restart). Workers
>will be sent home. And the parts of gasoline or whatever product their
>refining will sit in the storage tanks and cost them hugh amounts of
>money.Then when it comes to restart it's very dangerous. I know they can do
>it but they would rather keep the refinery operating than to shut it down.
>
> There's also the problems with getting the product to market. If the
>refinery uses a common carrier pipeline like most do then they lose their
>pipe time and go to the bottom of the list. Lets take Las Vegas for an
>example. There's only one pipeline there and it comes from CA. There are
>several companies using that pipe. Scheduling for your product takes a
month
>or two in advance. You have so many barrels and it needs to be pumping at a
>certain time. If you miss that time then the next customer gets your pipe
>time. Then you wait for many days before you can send that product. Then
>product that's already been sent there would be waiting to be sold and if
>everyone stopped buying gas in Las Vegas the pipeline and tank farm would
>have too much product and not enough storage space.
>
> The refineries would still be operating with no market to send it's
>product. There's only one good solution the oil companies would take to
save
>money and that's to lower the price so consumption goes up.
Dave Ruff,
If you are talking about a 48 hour quit buying spree, don't waste your time.
It won't happen unless everybody gets flooded out. Then there will be other
problems for people to deal with besides the price of gas.
Rocky
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