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To: Jomini
..refiners struggle (to control laughter & glee).
4 posted on 08/01/2005 10:47:37 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: norraad

NO LIE!

This is a joke! All refinery units are bought down for maintainence on two to four year cycles. They can only run about four maybe stretching to nearly five years before they have to be shutdown for repair.

The other joke is reducing stocks of gasoline and motor fuels! Would you not expect the stocks to reduce when you are at peak consuption? That is how the refining business operates EVERY year. They build gasoline, diesel and AV / jet fuel inventory in the spring and sell it down in the summer. In the fall they build stockpiles of fuel oils, propane and kero for winter demand and sell it down in the winter to make room for the spring build up of you guessed it! Motor fuels!

It has been a repeating cycle for the 25 years I've worked in refineries...


9 posted on 08/01/2005 11:08:41 AM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Member & GUNSNET.NET Moderator)
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