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"Dan Luke" wrote
Quite possible. I've mostly dealt with major plants operated by the major refiners. I ain't naming names! Anyway, there are enough low rent, half assed plants around to make the U.S. a target rich environment. And after the first of them becomes a target, the insurers will clean house. At least assuming the lawsuit happens, and we don't have people arguing that half-ass security is reasonable and should not imply liability. If that's the case, then I see a lawsuit in their future as well. That's what bankruptcy and reorganization are for - just ask Monsanto. And that's a problem. But that's a problem of not enough liability rather than too much. I've been to more than a couple of chemical plants in Mississippi (including the hell that is Chevron-Pascagoula) Now, that's a hell of a coincidence, but I said I wasn't naming names... No, it's not. We work in an incestuous little industry. Everyone winds up spending time at Chevron-Pascagoula eventually. and I must say that off-roading in a truck full of explosives would not be practical anywhere I've been. That's the norm all along the Gulf Coast. A little careful reconnoitering is all it would take, with maybe a sapper squad to blow the fence. Reconnoisance teams? Sapper squads? Come on - now we're in the range of a military operation, not a few guys with boxcutters. It's not reasonable for a civilian installation to be hardened like a military target. But if it falls to a handful of guys with hand tools, we have a problem. Well, I've visited a couple of nuke plants. Yes, I must say their security is better. I expect that this will become the norm for the real dangerous chemical plants located in populated areas. I guess I hope so, but at what cost? Sounds like another good reason to move plants and jobs overseas. Like they need another reason? If you have a system where capital is free to move anywhere but labor is stopped at the border, you are guaranteeing an inequitable system. Foreign trade and foreign investment are not the same thing. Michael |
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