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To: VRWC For Truth

“How can an airline make a profit from an unprofitable refinery when the oil company’s business is refining?”

By in-housing the ‘Crack-Spread’, and middleman profits.

It also takes a critical supply chain out of someone else’s hands, and puts it in yours, at what you know will be your most profitable hubs, after the slot-swaps.


8 posted on 04/16/2012 9:18:33 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: tcrlaf

It’s not a new idea. Airlines have been in the oil business before, and Delta has been all along. They owned and ran a pipeline with a subsidiary, Epsilon Trading, which is still in the av fuel business.

United has also been in the oil biz.


11 posted on 04/16/2012 9:27:36 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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