Comment preview: This doesn't protect big oil. Big oil will make money of car parts, tiers, roads and many other aspects not just gas. It protects Car dealerships. In these states car manufacturers are not allowed to sell direct the must use a reseller or dealership. This ....

Comment preview: The Keystone XL pipeline is about free market, not big government. Currently, this oil is moved pretty much only by rail, BNSF, a Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet) company. A staunch supporter of Obama, but we all know Obama runs a transparent administra ....

Comment preview: The initial prospecting is often done by small firms who speculatively buy drilling rights and go around searching for oil and gas. Their strategy is then to sell those rights, if they play out, to big producer companies. Some big companies do their own ex ....

Comment preview: Acne is generally caused through hormonal imbalances, there is an oil in your skin called sebum, and when you get a hormonal imbalance, your body overproduces the oil and it clogs up your pores. Sometimes dead skin cells can block pores during this overpro ....

Comment preview: Hello, I'm a marine biologist who will gladly answer questions. Keep in mind I'm more experienced in cetaceans. Marine birds come in contact with the ocean surface quite often, whether it is to rest at see or to feed (this depends entirely on the species). ....

Comment preview: Not a terribly bad rationalization, except for the whole not-wanting-to-get in a war at the same time taking land from everyone. The big issue between the US and Japan was oil. The US at the time was the Saudia Arabia of oil development and export (export ....

Comment preview: You really need to think this though. The only entities in the United States that pay taxes are The People. When you place taxes on companies, they simply roll that tax into the cost of production; in effect, corporate taxes are simply invisible taxes pai ....

Comment preview: Basically North sea oil is a fixed value. It produces X profit. Now take Britain and its GDP. Its GDP is pretty big so when you add X its not that big a deal. But when you just take away Scotland you have a much, much smaller GDP but X stays the same. So t ....

Comment preview: I just looked up what gutter oil was and what I found was that it was recycled oil (from Grease traps and such), that's refined, repackaged and resold for cheap, which is pretty gross. But the article I read brought me to another question; it said that gut ....

Comment preview: For the layman, there's one big reason why these professionals don't just bowl a perfect game every time, which (like darts or billiards) seems like it would be much more common than only 24 times in the history of televised bowling. That reason is the oi ....

Comment preview: Your post conveys a pretty basic lack of understanding of economics regarding subsidies and taxation. Also, I love when idiots talk about "huge government subsidies" to oil companies. I know that if, right now, I asked /u/Idontwanttopost to describe what t ....

Comment preview: I stopped using shampoo back in high school. I read an interview in Big Brother magazine with Ed Templeton, and he talked about how bad it was to wash your hair all the time. That had a big impact on me. Plus, I really like Toy Machine, so I listened to ....

Comment preview: "Because China" is an easy (plus pretty poor and most likely xenophobic) way to avoid the more important issues surrounding the horrendous redistribution of wealth in Angola. The majority of China's investment comes through oil-for-infrastructure loans to ....

Comment preview: Sure. I'll give you a list of reasons. A pot on the stove has better temperature control and recovery time (the time it takes for the oil to reheat to target temperatur after adding food) than consumer market deep fryers. A pot is much easier to clean. ....

Comment preview: Without getting overly complicated it will certainly go up eventually. There are a lot of factors that influence gas price but the simple answer is it is a limited resource that we still have a lot of demand for. To see it in action [here](http://www.gas ....

Comment preview: OK people, let us go over a few things about Sarah and the Palin family: * They have been involved with BP and big oil for a long time. Todd (her husband) works for BP. * Alaska is a state that gets the majority of its money by selling out to big oil. In ....

Comment preview: I used to work in automotive service, and one day right at closing this young kid comes in with a piece of shit car that is knocking and smoking and literally about to die. The oil light is on as it obviously has no oil pressure, and he asks for an oil cha ....

Comment preview: 1) Leave them soaking in your pasta sauces for about a week, Passata (fresh, uncooked tomato sauce) in particular 2) Infuse some olive oil (need lots of rinds) for this. Use a good quality olive oil, and two big handful of rind and a few sprigs of rosemary ....

Comment preview: Its interesting though, its not oil in the sense most Americans think it is. When we invaded Iraq oil was maybe $35 a barrell. Our little venture has done nothing to "secure more oil for america." Americans are paying more for oil now than before the wa ....

Comment preview: Anyone remember day one of this event? The TV gave it merely a blurb, as if it were routine and no big deal. Then day two, I remember oil representatives saying how the spill was so small, and wouldn't really matter, it would be contained. They had boats ....

Comment preview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation_in_Canada Are you well versed with the NEP? The massive, sweeping legislation made by Pierre Trudeau's Liberals? If not you should go read up on that too. Natural resources traditionally fall under Provin ....

Comment preview: Yes, Italy apparently exports more olive oil each year than its trees are capable of producing. They take cheaper oils, add olive pressings for flavor, let it sit, then sell it on. Fake olive oil is a big problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil_regu ....

Comment preview: Sarah is not much as a candidate, but the start of her answer is correct. Oil is a fungible commodity (one unit can be substituted for another with no difference). "Molecules" I've heard as an industry term (from someone I have immense respect for), and it ....

Comment preview: Some people believe that we shouldn't be expanding our oil infrastructure; that we should perhaps instead be expanding our renewable energy infrastructure. You say that oil development will continue, while others say that it needn't, and that it shouldn't. ....

Comment preview: It's very difficult and it's a huge disappointment that most all the oil is not what it says it is. What they tend to do is mix it with canola oil or veggie oil. Real oil taste so different. Very, very bitter in a lot of cases but soooo addicting. The only ....