John Felmy
John Felmy
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Everyone knows how high prices have been and how volatile they are for petroleum products this year,
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The reasons for high gasoline prices are very clear: the high cost of crude and the high cost of manufacturing gasoline. The idea that this is some sort of conspiracy is very unfortunate.
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It may be possible to push production higher for very brief periods, but the decision to do so must be made by individual companies, which will not compromise the safety of workers.
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High oil prices are certainly a drag on the economy, ... Oil is taking money out of the pockets of consumers that could be spent elsewhere, increasing the cost of doing business and the amount of foreign exchange dollars that need be funneled overseas.
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I think most people would agree that two-thirds of the economic slowdown we've seen is due to higher energy prices, ... And with higher energy prices, consumers will either have to reduce savings rates ... or reduce consumption.
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Increasing oil prices directly affects consumers. There are increases in transportation and in the cost of all other goods and services that use oil for production -- from heating a factory to building a road.
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Things clearly have to get done on a government level to fix these issues.
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I've got grave concerns, ... I thought we had learned this lesson 25 years ago.
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The key thing that I can't answer is will consumers act appropriately. If they decide to rush the system, it can't handle it even in the best of times.
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Those that can run it were running it and making a pretty good buck off it.
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We've had some good signs, we'll just keep working at it.
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Eventually, if you don't fill up, we run out of storage room and that creates a supply backlog,
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We are an industry already doing a lot. ... We're already investing vast amounts.
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There's no windfall. That's the fundamental problem with that argument.