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Feds Declare Regional Emergency For Midwest States After Oil Refinery Has ‘Unanticipated Shutdown’
Daily Wire ^ | 8/27/2022 | Zach Jewell

Posted on 08/27/2022 8:29:32 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever

The Department of Transportation declared a regional emergency Saturday affecting four Midwest states after a fire earlier this week caused an “unanticipated shutdown” of a BP oil refinery in Indiana.

BP Whiting, the sixth largest refinery in the U.S. refining over 400,000 barrels of oil per day, shut down to undergo damage assessment after a fire knocked out the plant’s electrical power and cooling water systems on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The shutdown caused the federal government to take action and address the looming shortage of fuel output that will affect Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, states that collectively receive up to 25% of their fuel from the Whiting refinery.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Illinois; US: Indiana; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: Washington; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: california; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; energy; fire; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; illinois; indiana; isolatedincidents; massachusetts; michigan; oilrefinery; refineries; washington; wisconsin
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To: Secret Agent Man

Who brn fits the most?

With most of these states being liberal leanings having higher petroleum products should hurt the Democrats.

Buying EVs that ain’t available isn’t a surefire way to win votes amount the hoi poi.


21 posted on 08/27/2022 9:04:10 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Plenty already came and went, see all the factories involved in the food industry having similar issues.


22 posted on 08/27/2022 9:04:53 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Why do I keep getting the feeling that I'm living in a dramatization of "Atlas Shrugged"?

$

23 posted on 08/27/2022 9:14:34 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: stars & stripes forever

If you buy an EV this wont be a problem. 😳😡👎


24 posted on 08/27/2022 9:28:49 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Refineries are big fat targets for robotic/remote-controlled devices carrying small charges. If not a drone that lands on top of something explody, then a small tracked vehicle which infiltrates the plant site and slowly crawls under something explody.

Refineries and other critical infrastructure will need continuous guarding by AI-powered swarms of flying and crawling robots, to defend against aggressor swarms of flying and crawling robots. And more physical barriers will be needed, including a lot of netting and mesh.


25 posted on 08/27/2022 9:28:56 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I get what you’re saying and I’m suspicious too, but if this deliberate it seems to be a brain dead move by the democrats.

Any oil spike before the midterms should seal up the House and probably the Senate to the RNC. Unless that is democrats don’t care about elections anymore because they’re the ones counting the votes.


26 posted on 08/27/2022 9:31:25 PM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: stars & stripes forever

Well, yeah, what else should we have expected now that gas prices have started to drop?


27 posted on 08/27/2022 9:38:57 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Explains why gas went up 30 cents/gal here ...


28 posted on 08/27/2022 9:42:34 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: rktman

What won’t be a problem?


29 posted on 08/27/2022 10:27:36 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: frank ballenger

If you’re on the southeast side of the state you may be OK. That part of Michigan gets a lot of its refined oil products from Ontario.

CC


30 posted on 08/27/2022 10:36:45 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: qaz123

Gas shortages. Who needs gas when you have a $90,000+ EV in the driveway. Just don’t park it in the garage. Fire hazard....


31 posted on 08/27/2022 10:38:17 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Perfect.

Isn’t it amazing how the EV nerds don’t have much to say about the trains and trucks that move EVERYTHING. Even their precious toy, electric cars.


32 posted on 08/27/2022 11:02:39 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: stars & stripes forever

Maybe this was a vaxxident. Man with a vaxxed up brain messed things up. And kaboom you get a fire and destruction of equipment.


33 posted on 08/27/2022 11:08:26 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: stars & stripes forever

Funnily enough, Russia has been experiencing a lot of ‘Unanticipated Shutdowns’ or smoking accidents in its power network, not to mention airbases and military dumps.


34 posted on 08/28/2022 2:04:55 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I will reserve judgement until the final report is filed with the Chemical Board.


35 posted on 08/28/2022 2:23:14 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

government has something to do with this


36 posted on 08/28/2022 3:31:37 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: stars & stripes forever
Thanks for posting this. In have particular interest in this fire since I worked several projects at BP Whiting.

This is one of the original very large refineries in the US. It's lineage starts with Standard Oil, then Amoco after the breakup and finally BP after BP bought Amoco in about 2000.

I did a quick search and was surprised to find practically no real information about the fire. Curious. Best that I can tell, the fire was at one of the three crude oil units at the front end of the refining steps.

Reading between the lines, I'm guessing that about 20% of the crude oil handling capacity is offline pending repairs. The entire refinery tripped offline apparently. I'm sure that was quite a few hours as units would have been crashing down all over the place. I've been through this one time at a petrochemical facility several times larger than this BP refinery.

The one consistent thing stories have mentioned is an “electrical fire”. It doesn't appear that the fire was catastrophic in the sense of destroying the crude unit involved.

Fearless prediction is that the refinery will restart in a few days. Whether that particular crude unit will restart again is an open question. Engineers are working through that question already. Repair? Demo old crude unit and replace with new? Demo old unit and spend $$$ on upgrading existing crude units? Demo and downgrade existing refinery capacity?

I’ll stop the speculations here.

37 posted on 08/28/2022 3:32:36 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: lightman

“$10.00 gas, here we come!”

$10 gas 2 months BEFORE the next election is far better than $10 gas 2 months AFTER the next election. So, I’ll take it now, for that reason.


38 posted on 08/28/2022 4:07:21 AM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: lightman; stars & stripes forever; 4everontheRight; 4Liberty; 5thGenTexan; 45semi; ...
Prepper Ping - When a petroleum refinery which produces 1/6th of our fuel and energy goes down due to fire
can you absorb a 1/6th increse in Fuel costs ?
Selective mid-western States receive most of the fuel from this plant

(From the news Source):" BP Whiting, the sixth largest refinery in the U.S. refining over 400,000 barrels of oil per day, shut down to undergo damage assessment
after a fire knocked out the plant’s electrical power and cooling water systems on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
The shutdown caused the federal government to take action and address the looming shortage of fuel output that will affect Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin,
states that collectively receive up to 25% of their fuel from the Whiting refinery."

“This Declaration addresses the emergency conditions creating a need for immediate transportation of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel and provides necessary relief,
” the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said in a statement."

(My Comment); Lack of gasoline, DEP, or Diesel - How long will commercial and private transportation survive this administration ?
Loss of 1/6th of our refinery capacity is not insignificant ?
When will more of our financial resources develop more refinery capacity - NEVER, under this administration, ..and they have said so !
Wait until our Armed Forces have to depend on electric tanks, electric vehicles, and electric airplanes to defend this country
Our Armed services will have to depend on sunlight, or wind power in order to resist international repression.
Ask our European allies 'how is that going' ?

39 posted on 08/28/2022 9:10:47 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: lightman
lightman :" ..Just in time for peak Hurricane season.
$10.00 gas, here we come!
/s "

EXACTLY true !

40 posted on 08/28/2022 9:13:03 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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