To increase profitability ? They are making record profits as we type. Were
talking BILLIONS of dollars in profits. They are raping us because they know
they can.
"thunder" wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:55:18 -0700, chuckgould.chuck wrote:


General question: We hear all this rhetoric about environmentalists
preventing the construction of an adequate number of refineries. Does
anybody know of a specific, recent, case where an oil company tried to
build a refinery and the attempt was thwarted by environmentalists? Would
be interesting to see a cite.

To increase profitability, oil companies have been streamlining refining
operations. This includes closing refineries and expanding existing
ones. They are not building new ones. In 1982, there were 231 oil
refineries in the US. In 2000, there were 155. In that time, according to
Carol Browner of the EPA, there was *one* application made to build a new
refinery.

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