[Land-speed] No new Refineries

[Dave Dahlgren]

I had understood and possibly wrong though that all the refineries in the 
USA are running in the 95% range of capacity due the loss of capacity after 
the gulf coast losses from Katrina.
dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Auguston" <jauguston at msn.com>
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:23 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] No new Refineries


>I am a lurker here but I have to comment on the often said story that there
> haven't been any new refineries built for (fill in a number) years.
>
> I worked as a construction crane operator for 40+ years and spent a lot of
> those years working in the four refineries here in Northwest Washington.
>
> Each of those refineries are refining approximately four times the number 
> of
> barrels of crude oil per day as they did when they were built. There is 
> the
> equivalent of 12 new refineries inside those four. Not new 
> locations-true-but
> new refining capacity.
>
> Jim