[tobyhill]

There may not have been restrictions removed and if there wasn't then everyone in our government needs to be fired for incompetence but if there was restrictions removed then oil and gas giant's executives need to be in jail for lying to congress when they lobbied to have restrictions removed under the pretense that they would build if done so. I challenge anyone to show me where a new refinery is being built right now. I also heard executives claim they had refineries in progress but was halted due to restrictions?

[thackney]

I think this article is worth your time to read.

Indeed, Arizona Clean Fuels, an organization that bills itself as committed to building newer and better refineries that burn gasoline more cleanly, has been through the wringer for a decade as it's tried to get a refinery up in the Yuma area. In April, the group finally got an air permit--the document needed to demonstrate it's complying with federal and state pollution laws--five years after it began the application process.