[Land-speed] No new Refineries

[sparky.2211 at cox.net]

Jim that is true at nearly everyone!



---- Jim Auguston <jauguston at msn.com> wrote: 
> 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
> ___