Ok, thanks for the illucidation.

Do you mean to say the Keystone pipeline is a multi-billion dollar international distraction aimed at north American peasants? There haven't been that many peasants in America historically, but it does seem to be a growing segment.

DozenSpeed, I appreciated you post ~ THIS IS THE NEXT MARKET BUBBLE!!! There was the tech bubble, then the housing bubble, and this is next. IT IS fleecing the 99% yet again with Buffet and Soros making the rules of the game, which of course allows them to win. My own post a few minutes later sprung from similar sentiment ~ I believe most GasBuddy's are in consensus with the notion that big oil's manipulation of refining is the reason for 95% of the steady or rising cost of consumer gasoline. Discovery, drilling and extracting together add probably just 5% to the inflated cost of producing the raw product. I might add that big oil's manipulative and predatory actions affect all consumers across the globe and not just Americans. Big oil is sitting in the proverbial cat-birds seat and they know it. However, there is one aspect of their business behavior that they have not completely thought through and that is the disaffected consumer sentiment when an alternative competitive product ...

Thanks for your intelligent post on BNSF. Too many knee-jerks out there.

Let's be buds; sent you an invite.

I have zero gas buddies. It' not you, it's me. Thank you.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/clean-diesel-vehicles-to-meet-californias-new-stringent-clean-car-standards-adopted-by-air-resources-board-this-week-2012-03-23

Thanks for the supportive comment in the "EPA Heightens Scrutiny Over Pa. Gas Drilling" article. I agree with you. I don't exactly like government expansion, and I'm not an environmentalist. However, what are we to do now that fracking chemicals are routinely showing up in well water? Those of us whose wells are at stake wish the experst offered a more meaningful approach to get the fracking chemicals out of our well water. Any suggestions? If you support further discussion of this article, you may choose to "Pump it UP" by voting for it on the recent news page.