Posted on 10/06/2011 11:27:37 AM PDT by 7MMmag
Everyone who follows the climate change controversy even casually will know about the hockey stick controversy. Well, Nature magazine this week offers a new graph of interest: the rising trend of retractions of scientific research papers...
Lo and behold, it looks like a hockey stick! (Heh.)
The Nature story notes:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
you don’t think alberta+Ndakota+alaska crude is enough to warrant refineries plus hydrocracker in Ndak? Seems to me if we don’t put one in Ndak, then the canucks will eventually put one in their own country
How are you going to get Alaska oil to North Dakota and why would you?
And you are ignoring my point. The refining is just one step. You still need to get the product to the market and that isn’t in North Dakota. You would actually build more pipeline plus build new refineries with your proposal.
You are suggesting spending more money for the same result.
I just want more jobs.
I’d rather see guys building a refinery and requisite auxillaries in north dakota than put up 50,000 windmills in kansas...and waste half a billion dollars on a damn solar cell factory that goes broke.
Also, I’d like to see the refineries NOT at a sea port so I know our petro-chemical products aren’t being exported to china!
I would rather those companies spend money building additional facilities, rather than idling facilities in one area of the country while building another.
Every dollar you spend building a refinery that already exists in another area, was dollars that could have been spent developing even more production facilities.
The capital is not unlimited, they have to choose between projects. We have the existing refinery capacity, only those refineries refine too much oil imported from oversea, particularly OPEC.
The markets for the products don’t change, just because the refineries are now in North Dakota. You still have to take the products to the existing market where the demand is.
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