"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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That's not true at all. CITGO and BP wanted to build a refinery up
river in Connecticut about six years ago - they got beat to death by
environmentalists and the Speaker of the House and President of the
Senate - all Democrats I might add - and just said screw it.

Is it a situation similar to what midwest coal burning plants face, being
asked to modify their methods to make them cleaner, or in the case of
refineries, safer and less likely to whack all your fish & birds for years,
because somebody came to work stoned? Remember that every business has some
acceptable loss or accident equation. But, with oil spills, what's OK with
the owner of the facility is usually WAY out of line with what the locals
think when their beaches are ruined for a period of time.