Regional Oil Shock?

[powayseller]

How are their costs the same? Isn’t the cost of goods higher for the imported oil?

I read the article. It is somewhat different from the author of 1000 Barrels a Second, who says we are at a breaking point and need to readjust our oil use by conservation or alternative energy, or pay a lot more to make it worthwhile for oil companies to extract the harder-to-get oil.

[powayseller]

Lindi, it seems like others are also upset that BP didn’t keep its pipeline better maintained.

Oil’s aging pipelines
What took BP so long to realize its Alaskan pipelines were corroding? A ‘warning’ to the rest of the industry.

[bubble_contagion]

I meant Citgo not Cisco. Ha, Ha. Imagine Cisco being owned by Venezuela! Hugo Chavez could turn off the internet, then what would we do? Can’t imagine a worst scenario.

[LA_Renter]

Contagion,

I have to admit you had me a little confused there. : )

[powayseller]

I read a media critique today; someone was asking why the media didn’t pose the tough questions about the maintenance issues, if any, on the remaining 500+ miles of the Alaskan pipeline? After all, if BPs corrosion was undetected with the sonar scanning, could the rest of the Alaska pipeline have those corrosion problems if they use sonar scanning?

[VCJIM]

Does the media EVER ask the tough questions? Are they not just puppets for vested interests?

[powayseller]

I agree with you, VCJIM. Even a story meant to show both sides should have some tough questions for each side. What is the IQ of the typical reporter anyway?

[lindismith]

I agree too. It’s the lack of critical thinking ability, and poor writing skills that confound me. How did some of these people get jobs?
Did you know journalists don’t even need a masters degree?

In fact, Poway, the link you added to this thread – at the bottom of the article are two statements by people interviewed by the journalist that appear to agree, yet they are presented as opposing statements. I started to post a question when I read it the other day, but it was too difficult to start probing more deeply when the actual report was so confusing!

I just want data, some analysis, hard questions, and then clear expression of it all. Why is that so hard?

I partly think it’s because as a society we don’t expect accountability, and that just seems to permeate everything, right down to the reporting of the daily news.

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