On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:28:10 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:


I was talking about 'mericans putting all the refineries down in an area subject to hurricanes and flooding.

They are far from "all" down there but we certainly have plenty.
https://earthjustice.org/features/147refineries
It is mostly because that is where a lot of the crude comes from and
also the easy access to tanker ports. In addition to that there is
also a lot of plastic manufacturing going on in the area using the
tailings from the gasoline and diesel production. Harry would point
out it is a low wage area but I am not sure that is really true in the
oil business.