Posted on 06/20/2022 9:23:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Some of the existing ones have been expanded and upgraded so much, they may as well be new plants.
When a refinery is closed down, skilled workers scatter to the wind. Some of them retire. Some of them migrate to better and more secure jobs. So even if the government gave permission for a closed refinery to reopen, it would take a long time to get it back on-line.
We are so screwed.
“There may never be another new refinery built in America”
This probably could have been concluded 20-25 years ago.
American environmentalist are often nutty fruitcakes who are willing to destroy the nation over their idolatrous devotion to nature.
Electric cars? Yeah, right, like they have not and would not still fight tooth and nail to prevent ever expanding the power grid.
A serious number of ‘Rats need to be Che’d.
We should be building 10 new refineries and 20 new nuclear power plants - if the
cretins who populate our government had any brains.
Gas is going remain expensive. We might experience a respite in prices at times (Trump may get reelected in 2024) but it’ll only be temporary.
Nah.... just revoke their citizenship and ban them to Cuba, never to return.
I agree .44%.
dang too large an image- ive asked mods to delete-
And on the subject of oil, Biden will refuse to re-fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve once it is empty.
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Not a pretty picture.
Our Politicians took money to change the a tax code to incentivize sending Tech jobs overseas.
They never had any interest in manufacturing.
Now, the Subsidized Energy force.
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I saved it!
First, the wealthy individuals behind the environmentalists push a solution. Then, when many people rely on the solution, the Machiavellian individuals behind it proceed to stomp on it. They simply want you all to be gone.
E-scooters were supposed to fix travel in Rome. Then they became a major problem
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/rome-scooter-problems/index.html
Way to defend "Democrat" watermelon marxists.
It may take a decade or more to build a new power plant, obtain all the ever changing permits and meet all the enacted laws intended to thwart such a facility. Once that is all done and the plant is finally completed, it may take another decade or so to settle all the lawsuits through our court system, costing investors millions more.
Germany tried the “Green” energy approach and ended up buying Russian oil and gas. When Russia attacked Ukraine, Germany started rebuilding their shut down coal plants.
Elon Musk has said that if the US intended to go 100% EV, it would need to double its power production capacity. That will NEVER happen in the US in my children’s lifetime.
“My grandfather ride a camel and my father rode a camel. I drive a Mercedes and my son a Land Rover. My grandson will ride a Land Rover but my great grandson will have to ride a camel again”, said Sheik Rashid, founder of Dubai.
The US needs to start investing in camels.
So, it can be done but will it be done? The OP describes reasons it will not because of economic and political conditions that poison the commercial factors.
America’s people are poorly educated and too ignorant to realize how stupid they are all the while thinking their high school degrees make them geniuses about everything.
America, the new socialist Venezuela!
Flush twice!
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