It's also odd how the MSM makes no mention of the 50 or so refineries that were shut down by the oil companies in order create a "choke" on the supply side. ( and they want us to help build new ones ? )
Really do you have documentation to support this?

Here is support why no new ones are going up
http://www.reason.org/commentaries/moore_20050901.shtml

But getting an oil refinery built is next to impossible, hence the 30-year construction drought. There will always be environmental activists who fight any new proposed refinery, regardless of where it might be located and how environmentally safe it is. And our environmental rules give them the upper hand.

The environmental impact-report process mobilizes the "not in my back yard" elements to oppose any proposed refinery, but it does not mobilize people or groups who are looking at national energy needs. You wind up with a very lopsided discussion where potential problems are thoroughly and perhaps overly represented, but the only group pointing out the benefits of the refinery is the "evil" oil company asking to build it - even though every automobile driver would benefit.