Yes, I am aware that there are those who's job it is to complain about any
cost imposed on them

From 2003 to the present gasoline consumption, and therefore production, has
tripled while no new refineries have been built and many have been closed.
Basically the refineries have been rebuilt on the same footprint and now
output vastly more product.

Mike
MU-2


"sfb" wrote in message news:MbMRe.28381$FL1.9166@trnddc09...
Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, August 2004.

"... you'd think oil companies would be falling over each other to build
new refineries. Not so. There hasn't been a new refinery built in the
United States in 28 years and more than 200 smaller facilities have
closed.''

"Nobody seems to want to build a refinery in their back yard," David
O'Reilly, chairman of ChevronTexaco, told a US Chamber of Commerce
luncheon the other day, deploring what he said was a regulatory and
permitting morass and almost certain citizen opposition to any new
refinery project.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cnn43384.htm

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...
HELLO!!! ARE YOU LISTENING JAY???

Where do you get this BS?

IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO BUILD NEW REFINERIES.

sorry for shouting.

Mike
MU-2


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:bgKRe.302703$_o.171971@attbi_s71...
Us Gasoline supply has been cut by a third. My point is let the people
in the US reduce their consumption by a third. Price stays down, no one
else gets f****d up. As has been said in the thread, this was a problem
waiting to happen, the politicians knew about it, the local authorities
new about it and business knew about it but they ignored it.

Right, but what you fail to realize is that this is a SELF-IMPOSED
disaster, by well-meaning Americans who thought that they were helping
the world by making it impossible for oil companies to build any new
refineries.

The hurricane was inevitable; the consequences were not.

I suspect, given what you're saying, that you probably agreed with their
environmental approach. You probably cheered as, one by one, more and
more restrictive U.S. laws were passed, making it harder and harder for
suppliers to refine crude oil into gasoline. Until now.

Now that their short-sightedness is hurting everyone, badly --
worldwide -- maybe you'll realize just how much harm environmental
extremists have done.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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