[thackney]

Do you understand we have already become a net exporter of refined products?

We don't have a shortage of refineries. We have a shortage of the feed stock to them.

Why would ConocoPhillips or any other company want to shutdown their working refinery to spend money and build a new one for 8 to 10 billion dollars?

[org.whodat]

Mumbo jumbo and you are not strangers, what is the cost of building a pipe line, not counting the number of people that will be forced at the end of a gun to sell property they do not want to sell. The tax write off would build a dozen refineries. Actually the refineries would be cheaper.