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Title: Gasoline: will we run short

Journal Article · · Sohioan; (United States)
OSTI ID:6266721

In a question and answer format, Frank E. Mosier, in charge of Supply and Transportation for Sohio, examines some of the problems behind the current gasoline supply issue and suggests some possible remedies. The shortage this summer (1979) is a combination of the loss of Iranian oil imports, increasing gasoline demand by consumers, and a lack of new gasoline manufacturing capacity. Shortages will more likely be of unleaded gasoline because it is more difficult to make in the refineries. Environmental legislation and a morass of regulations have made it difficult to begin construction of new refineries in certain locations, according to Mosier. With surplus refining capacity abroad, there is concern that government policy will permit unlimited product imports at marginal prices. Finally, oil companies are investing Alaskan oil profits in new profit-generating investments instead of refineries to sustain them when Alaskan oil is depleted. If the government removed certain regulatory constraints, said Mosier, building new refineries might be a different story.

OSTI ID:
6266721
Journal Information:
Sohioan; (United States), Vol. 51:2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English