Exactly.

Strange, how many oil refinery fires/explosions have been reported recently ?

Looks like Washington State is going to hit $ 4.59.9/gal before the Presidential election. Right now, the price at a local gas station is $ 4.15.9/gal.

Ed ======= How about a little compassion for the dead and injured before you launch into your nonsense.

It is a shame someone got killed but Ed Mct is right by the end of the weekend gas will probably be 10 cents higher.

The oil industry is so huge I doubt the fat cats care or even blinked an eye when this guy got obliterated!

Good no one else got killed.

This is the fourth or fifth 'mysterious' explosions at refineries this year and, besides this routine reporting of this disaster, there is no more national media coverage of these events. Then the price of gas goes up right after these explosions/fires, also a great 'mystery' according to our venerable media. This is the real issue which should concern the electorate and one has to wonder if this is just a cruel coincidence or a political campaign strategy.....and who would benefit from such negative occurrences.

Way to go Ed - turn an a fatal accident into "an excuse to raise gas prices".

Have you read your post, it makes a -0 amount of sense.

4 bucks

Then 377 bucks

Then 4.10

Your the cause of this crap, dipstick!

I only wish that the oil companies had a little bit of the compassion I feel for that worker and his family, but the fact is that they will only give that lip service. It's all about money to them and the opportunity to raise prices. And President Obama has zero to do with it. He is trying to bring in policies that will reduce our dependency on oil, but that's the long term solution. For anything to be done about current prices Congress would have to take action and there's not a snowball's chance in hell for that to happen. There are only two ways to control the short term price of gas i.e. a price cap imposed by Congress or Nationalize our oil industry. Anybody see either of those actions making it through our current Congress?

ihateliberals-3787409" The truely poor that I see near me dont even care what gas costs. They dont own a car & sell their @$$ to make a living. They couldnt care what happens one day to the next. So a truely poor person has allready been destroyed by class warfare. I think you got it wrong good ol' buddy but thanks for trying!

There are some folks that do buy expensive houses in the burbs with high property taxes to keep members of the above ^ from mingling with their kids. Is that what u were referring to?

Yeah, right. Obama set the explosion up to purposely raise the price of gas. Amazing how so many blithering idiots are capable of spelling well enough to post on a blog.

HotTea -------- Obama has a lot to do with gasoline supply. He actively suppresses the recover of our own easily available resources and resources of our friendly neighbor , Canada. By doing so , he increases our dependency on countries that hate us and rip us off.

Gary, if what you say is true, then why is this the highest year of us exporting oil products in the history of the US? Get real and quit listening to the spin.

The Keystone pipeline has nothing to do with oil for the US. It is all about getting it from Canada to a port so that it can be shipped to China. We have ports and refineries in Texas and Louisiana that are ready and waiting to get that oil processed and on to a ship out of here.

Don't you wing nuts know there are bigger forces going on here? The closest possible port for Canada would be over the mountains to Vancouver. But there is too much resistance from the native populations to get that done. And there are no refineries there capable of handling the large quantities they want to process. However, in the southern US, there and bunch of refineries and several very good post ready and waiting.

It it wasn't for a Republican governor in Nebraska, the pipeline would already be well on its way to being built.

Here are some simple facts.

There are more drilling rigs working in the Gulf of Mexico than before the BP oil spill.

There is more oil being pumped today in the US than at any time in the last 13 years.

There is more natural gas being pumped than ever before.

Last year in terms of dollars, the US exported more oil products than it imported. The reason is we imported crude oil and exported high dollar refined products.

Open up our coastlines to the development of the petroleum resources there. Cuba is preparing to allow the Chinese to drill off the coast near Florida. It is insane that we will allow them to drain away oil we could produce. The coast of Florida will experience the same risk of spill now but with the reward of production going to China. Absurd.

Stop the government interference into fracking for natural gas production. This technology is the key to our approaching energy independence.

gary-309869:

Wrong! The oil produced in Canada and the U.S. does not stay here, despite what your Far Right Extremists tell you. Why else would they need to build pipelines to the refineries on the Gulf Coast than to ship the processed oil overseas?

???

Censorship! Must be a Far Right Extremist.

pig -------- the people constantly calling for censorship are the liberal class. They're the ones that bemoan the making of a movie critical of Muhammad and want it censored. They're also the ones that constantly collapse comments on Newsvine with which they disagree rather than allowing all to stand and be considered on an equal basis.

Give it a rest Gary. The movie wasn't "critical of Muhammad", it was intended to be a hate-filled diatribe, intended to insult Muslims and pander to people like you. And no, the "liberal class" isn't calling for censorship. As for liberals collapsing posts - that goes both ways; it simply depends on the nature of the article.

the movie was freedom of speech, no matter the intent.

freedom of speech, does not mean delete/collapse what one does not agree with, that is called censorship. big difference, and no matter the culprit, it is in violation of our freedoms.

i didnt watch the movie/film, and dont care to. its something that someone wanted to make a voice about, in his/her own words in a sence, and it is something i care little to nothing about enough to waste my time watching.

however when trolling off topic in such a form, i felt the need to ask (???) where in the heck the original rant was coming from. because it is a part of freedom of speech, and wondering what the point was from the begining seeing this was about an exsplosion at a refinery, not a fil about some guy certain people who is considered a prophet, that they worship... and wanted to where the crazy corrolation of the 2 were supposed to make some sort of actual sence.

TFO ====== Yeah, and I remember paying 19.9 cents for a gallon of gas. But houses cost $8,000 then too. Times change and inflation marches on.

Yes, and the minimum wage was 75 cents an hour.

It's not a lesson they want to learn...Less REFINED OIL mean higher pump prices...The Company places it's worker upon the ALTAR of Profit...and plunges the knife..They loose nothing in a fine..Because they make twenty times that in Higher Pump prices...It's all game to these GOOD OLD BOYS of THE GOOD OLD PARTY...There worker die they profit...They dont loose ever...It's all set up that way.Same thing for the FAT CATS on Wall Street...There is no way for them loose..All the laws and Penalties are set up to favor the profitable outcome...AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY WE NEED REGUALTION....because in a climate where Big Business runs the Lower House in Washington...Our Workers you know REAL AMERICAN just become so much human sacrafice for there GOD.............THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR...Never mind flesh and bone family and caring....It's all put on the ALTAR ....ALL of it for Money and power..

Coloradoboy ====== What utter nonsense! No company intentionally causes the death of its employees. You're just blinded by your political hatred.

gary-309869:

No, but unnecessary deaths do happen due to insufficient attention to maintenance, safety, and compliance to safety laws, all of which occur to increase the bottom line.

ColoradoBoy=========== You need to learn some science. In any environment where chemicals are subjected to very high temperatures and pressures some accidents will inevitably occur. When one considers the volume of liquids and gases run through these systems every day it is amazing how few people are injured. Working in a refinery is nothing like working in a building pushing paper around.

By the way , this refinery in Oklahoma where the incident occurred is very small. The amount of product it contributes to the supply system wouldn't fill a thimble. This event will have no affect on overall supply.

"some accidents will inevitably occur"

My feeling is oil companies are NOT afraid of a little old fine...

When there is little or no consequences for an avoidable "accident" why bother addressing old, corroded piping. Why worry, If we make less product, the price goes up!

Damn glad nuclear plants, airlines and parachute manufacturers don't think accidents are inevitable...what with all that pressure, etc!

Woodysr ------- You must have missed that story in the papers about Japan.

And I must have missed the tsunami that hit Oklahoma? Or maybe it was just the casual attitude toward maintenance exhibited by many refineries including those in California, Washington and Texas. I would rather camp on the top of any US nuclear facility than live anywhere near Pasedena, TX Or any US refinery!

A 10 cent increase on $2 gas is the same as a 20 cent increase on $4 gas.