In article et,
"Mike Rapoport" wrote:

Here is the official data:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petro.../gasoline.html

Go there, then to the Production XLS file under History. Gasoline
production is up substantially in the past 20yrs as you would expect from
the increased number of cars and increased population.

The reason no new refineries have been built is that it is cheaper to expand
existing ones because they already have all the infrastructure ...[snip]

At what point will it become too expensive to expand existing refineries?

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Bob Noel
no one likes an educated mule