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Mike Rapoport wrote:
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

True, it's not physically impossible to build a new refinery here in
the US, but it's nearly financially and enviromentally impossible. EPA
regs and enviromental studies and all the paperwork that has to be
accomplished and signed off prior to even designing the plant has
pretty well made new construction a non-starter since the late 70's.

No.. New refineries have not been built because it is cheaper to increase
the capacity of existing ones. These retrofits are subject to all the
enviornmental regulation that a new refinery would be subjet to.

Mike
MU-2

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Mike Rapoport wrote:
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

True, it's not physically impossible to build a new refinery here in
the US, but it's nearly financially and enviromentally impossible. EPA
regs and enviromental studies and all the paperwork that has to be
accomplished and signed off prior to even designing the plant has
pretty well made new construction a non-starter since the late 70's.

No.. New refineries have not been built because it is cheaper to increase
the capacity of existing ones. These retrofits are subject to all the
enviornmental regulation that a new refinery would be subjet to.

That's not true.

There are a million ways to expand any existing business -- refineries
included -- without tripping the government's "regulation Nazis."

Whatever the oil companies have done by way of expansion-in-place has been
terribly limited by the financial burden of overly-restrictive EPA rules --
to the ultimate detriment of everyone.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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