Replies to post #16796 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

how do you arrive at that conclusion? The choke point now is getting oil from wells to refineries. From what I see oil is transported by truck from widely scattered tanks at a wellpad or near a cluster of wells to a small refinery which may be 5-50 miles away from the storage tank. Then the oil is piped along major transportation routes to larger refineries. Installing new pipe along those major transport paths wouldn’t b a huge problem but I don’t think that’s where the problem is or will be