The dirty little secret about no new refineries is, the owners of existing refineries have made damned sure no new ones get built.
Environmentalists and liberals have made sure no new refineries are being built.
They also have caused large oil corporations to move their primary operations overseas resulting in less jobs here.
They also seek to claim American lands for environmentalist control. By the way, a lot of that control is by other nations due to agreements made tying use of American land to environmental agencies which are not run by Americans but by foreign persons.
Can you possibly see an environmentalist threat to the use of American land by Americans? Could they possibly limit American growth and power? Seems to me that the whole purpose of environmental groups IS TO CONTROL AMERICA'S USE OF AMERICA'S OWN LANDS AND PUT THE CONTROL INTO THE HAND OF ULTRA LEFTWING ORGANIZATIONS.
(Of course I expect to be called stupid).
give me a break. I live in the oil patch. GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS and enviro nuts are the reason there aren't more refineries. Believe me, the profit motive is very strong to build more refineries.