"thunder" wrote in message
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:07:11 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


Why have these extremists prevented the building of new refineries? I
need
details.

LOL, Rush must be talking up those evil environmentalists, again. It
isn't environmentalists that are the problem, it's profitability. Oil
companies haven't been building refineries, they have been closing them,
24 between 1995 and 2001.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...ining_text.htm

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:...2+oil+& hl=en



OK...time out. That second source says the oil companies are looking for
government incentives to build more refineries which, according to their
internal documents, they do not need.

Wow. I'm really confused now. They'll get paid to open new facilities, and
then probably close them again.