Truck driver strike because of gas prices..

[Tom Schindler]

Nobody really understands how dangerous an oil refinery really is. No community wants them in thier back yard. They stink, pollute the ground, are extremely explosive, to name a few. I have been in my share of refineries in the past. They are an eyesore.



Most communities would rather look at a big office building that employs 500 people then a refinery that employs as many as a thousand people. Lets face it, they are ugly.



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The same goes for nuclear powerplants. Clean and safe energy. 99% of the people out there do not understand nuclear energy.



As a radiation worker, I still get the same old questions.



Do you glow at night? (no)

What does radiation smell (or taste, look, feel, etc) like? (you are unable to sense it with any of your senses)

Does that radiation make the weld hot? (no)

How long do I have to wait after you put the radiation source away before it is free of radiation? (Gamma ray energy is just an energy, much like a light bulb. When you turn the bulb off, the light goes out)



...and many others.



People don't know what it is, but they know it is bad and unsafe. I know of more coal burning boilers blowing up then nuclear reactors.





Tom

 

[Gerald Pierce]

The real solution, though, was to increase prices in response to the increased demand and limited supply. This is what the uninformed and the political class call "price gouging."

I have an extra generator. I paid 300.00 for it. We have a hurricane, there is now no electricity and no generators available in the stores. I sell you my extra gennie for 800.00 so you can keep your food cold and lights on for your family. Is this gouging or supply/demand? I say it's gouging. The oil companies expenses are not going up as dramaticallyas the price at the pump, they just cant refine it fast enough. Raising prices to slow the demand is bull. They are making money off of it and if you think they aren't, your crazy. A station gets no gas delivery but raises prices from 2.77 to 3.09 in one day is making a profit.... pure profit. .32 a gallon pure profit from GOUGING.



Amazingly, I saw on the news last night that gas in Mobile was cheaper than here in Va Bch... they were just running low on it.