[topher]

That is true of most cities -- it is pipelined from the refinery.

There was a plan to build more refineries on closed military bases.

I would approve of that as long as:

1. They would be built in other parts of the country -- Carolinas/Georgia/Pennsylvania/Ohio/Indiana/Illinois or some other place. This would mean we did not have all our eggs in one basket (Texas-Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast)
2. Allow for spare capacity so that we are operating at 70% to 80% of capacity.

And I would not mind if the government contracted this out to oil companies to do (I think the government would make a mess of it).

As a taxpayer, I found it very annoying to be gasoline lines in California in the 1970s because of the presidency of Jimmy Carter. I would not mind tax dollars be used to help prevent shortages of gasoline -- even if it is only for a week or two.

[cva66snipe]

The FED has plenty of land here that mostly likely would not be suitable for anything else but something like a refinery due to HAZMAT from the Oak Ridge weapons facilities. I’m talking about quite a few thousand acres too. Of course the same Kooks who come here every year to protest the weapons facilities likely wouldn’t like that either.