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2006-11-28 Home Front Economy

Texas Refinery Repaired, Working to Double Capacity

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Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-28 09:09|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Texas Refinery Repaired, Working to Double Capacity

Which explains why gas went up five cents a gallon here this morning.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-28 09:48|| 2006-11-28 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 "It really doesn't make sense to build anywhere but the Gulf,"

Yeah, right. It makes lots of sense to have all the nation's refining capacity in one place, subject to hurricane devastation any given year. (sarc, in case you couldn't tell.)

It only makes sense because it's the only place the industry can get permission to build or expand refineries. Can't have those nasty things near the beautiful people, you know.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-28 10:55|| 2006-11-28 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 There's a small refinery up in Denver that's been trying to expand for 20 years or more, without success. Pueblo recently offered them a deal to build on part of the old slag heap from the defunct Colorado Steel and Iron works. There are small oilfields in Florence, about 20 miles away, and the Denver/Julesburg basin produces some crude. Most of what the refinery will process will probably come from either Western Slope oilfields, or the Williston Basin up on the Wyoming/Montana/Dakotas border area. Either way, it'll probably be a profitable deal if everything works out.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-11-28 15:43|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-28 15:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Having most of our oil refining capacity in one spot also creates the most likely target for a one-nuke strike on the US. Few would die, but the country would be in a world of hurt.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-28 19:41|| 2006-11-28 19:41|| Front Page Top

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