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US shale oil reviving East Coast refineries

Boston Globe -- A year ago, the shutdown of several refineries serving the Northeast and the possibility they would not reopen threatened to boost New England’s already­ high gasoline prices by as much as 15 cents a gallon. But an influxof cheaper crude oil extracted from shale rock formations in the United States has helped save most of those facilities and stabilized gas ­prices.

The revival of the East Coast refineries is another example of how the controversial drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is changing the energy equation for the region, nation, and world.

Just as fracking opened vast reserves of natural gas over the past decade, it is now unlocking crude oil trapped in shale deposits. It is so dramatically increasing domestic production that the United States is pro..

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tomok
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US shale oil reviving East Coast refineries, the refinieries should have never been shut down in the first place. Fracking may get that extra natural gas out of the rock formations but what will happen to the above and underground water quality? Once that water is 'tainted,' there's no going back!
More oil for the refineries but Big Oil and Big Gas sells fuel and natural gas on the world market for higher prices.
The US ‘oil and natural gas resources’ belong to the citizens of this country and are to be used by those same citizens! The price at the pump needs to go down to $2/gallon - *$3, *$3.50/gallon or *$4.00 is Not the new low!
More Refineries are Not the answer, Stop exporting fuel is!
Take care of the domestic fuel market first and above all else!
Drive vehicles with high MPG, are very safe, reliable, have a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money.
The price of fuel at the pump is too high!
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Gasprice: that's be nice.. doubt it though.
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Let the refineries get up and run and hopefully drive the gas prices down!!!
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let's remanufacture / rebuild what's there and keep them running for a change.
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we need better running refineries that don't shut down every time a roach runs into some nook or cranny.
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Good
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Great for the refineries, and therefore us, but not sure I like it living off of fracking
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From 2008 to 2012 I went only bicycle for daily commuting here in Maine, yet the only stock I did not sell off we my ExxonMobil stock.

I never rail against what a company charges for their product. If I do not like the price, I do not buy it.
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The US needs to be building refineries and not shutting them down.
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good deal
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open a refinery ....
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Maybe they may open one refinery.
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Gas prices are soaring. More than 50 cents a gallon over the past few weeks. So what do more refineries do? Line the pockets of BIG OIL with gold.
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gas is still going up
3.91 here
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More pipelines to feed the refineries with new domestic crude, please.
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Old but, good news.
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It would be good to reopen those refineries.
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Hopefully more refineries will lower the prices but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen very soon.
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Okay.
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Won't lower prices in the near future.
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Oil is everywhere. We just have to pump it.
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They certainly need the restoration
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Well said stratlinetime.
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PrinceLH I disagree with you on this one. As long as we have greedy & corrupt lawmakers in this country we will always have high gas prices.
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anything for cheap energy...
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Sooner or later, the overabundance of domestic oil, will result in lower prices. It's the governments job to force the oil companies to sell their refineries to other interests, so they can't manipulate the price.
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Bad for water.
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Nice for East Coast refineries
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And still gas prices continue to rise
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careful with this fracking.
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Good news. Spread it to the West Coast.
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Prices are sky high right now
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Ban fracking.
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No really
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Bring it on
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ok
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Prices still on the rise.
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I sure hope our two countries are considering the long term consequences of hydraulic fracking... If we are not careful they may be at least as significant as what we are dealing with in atomic stuff.
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good
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So lower the as prices
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ok.
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dhan quick
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Stabilized gas prices..?? Someone must have a different definition than what I understand it to mean.
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I guess the question could be how high would New England's gas prices be without Fracking???
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This is awesome.
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A re-hash story
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Drill baby drill in all of America.
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Ban fracking.
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Good
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great news
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