what they find is delivered through long billion dollar pipelines and put in expensive tank teors ship it across an ocean. then it s refined into several types of gasoline. transported in trucks that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars each until finally it gets to stations that spends a fortune in safety devices. even after that the gas still costs less than the bottled water they sell at gas stations. if government produced gas would it cost $50 a gallon. [ laughter ] john: there would be shortages. they complain about their profits but we should be glad they make lots of money. profits help pay for pollution controls and pay to help them look for more oil. how much profit do they make? people think its buck or two a gallon, exxon s profit is just 6 cents per gallon.
through seven miles of earth. what they find is delivered through long billion dollar pipelines and put in expensive tankers to ship eight cross an ocean. then refined into several types of gasoline. transported in trucks that costs of thousands each. until it gets to our gas station which spends a fortune on safety devices so we don t blow up while filling up. after that the gas still costs less per ounce than the bottled water they sell. if government produced gas it would cost $50 a gallon and there would be shortages. people complain about oil company profits, we should be glad they make lots of money. profit lets them pay for the pollution controls we want them to have and pay to look for more oil so we ll have oil tomorrow. how much profit do they make? people think a buck or two a :.
sideways through as much as seven miles of earth. what they find is delivered through long billion dollar pipelines and put in expensive tank teors ship it across an ocean. then it s refined into several types of gasoline. transported in trucks that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars each until finally it gets to stations that spends a fortune in safety devices. even after that the gas still costs less than the bottled water they sell at gas stations. if government produced gas would it cost $50 a gallon. [ laughter ] john: there would be shortages. they complain about their profits but we should be glad they make lots of money. profits help pay for pollution controls and pay to help them look for more oil. how much profit do they make? people think its buck or two a gallon, exxon s profit is just 6
weren t safe. we had medicines that turned into prescriptions before well tested. we had a consumer market right down to meat and drugs were being given to the public. we were told, let the industries that produce them police them. that is like asking the fox to police the hen house. i made animal fox, not this fox. john: in this case it might be appropriate. in any case, you can t ask the people who are in the business of making things for profit to often police their goods. john: yes, you can i would argue. let s talk about one at a time. you said nuclear. i m with you that on pollution issues. nuclear regulatory agency, all kinds of pollution controls because there is month market. john: they don t have to keep passing more rules. that happened under richard
rotting meat. we had nuclear plants that weren t safe. we had medicines that turned into prescriptions before well tested. we had a consumer market right down to meat and drugs were being given to the public. we were told, let the industries that produce them police them. that is like asking the fox to police the hen house. i made animal fox, not this fox. john: in this case it might be appropriate. in any case, you can t ask the people who are in the business of making things for profit to often police their goods. john: yes, you can i would argue. let s talk about one at a time. you said nuclear. i m with you that on pollution issues. nuclear regulatory agency, all kinds of pollution controls because there is month market. john: they don t have to keep passing more rules.