Feds Declare Regional Emergency For Midwest States After Oil Refinery Has ‘Unanticipated Shutdown’

Daily Wire ^ | 8/27/2022 | Zach Jewell

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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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[CottonBall]

“shut down to undergo damage assessment after a fire knocked out the plant’s electrical power and cooling water”

You’d think they’d have procedure after procedure in place so that a fire never happened. I know gas turbine (and probably all others) power plants do - lots of checklists and training that seems redundant to the operators.

It’s odd how many food production places are having fires, and now this.

[MtnClimber]

Running on empty.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oooooooooooh, goody! Which hippie-dippies committed arson? Antifa? BLM? FBI splinter group (see “Enemies Foreign and Domestic”)? Earth First? Eco-terrorists?

Betting it could be mercenaries hired by somebody like George Soros or even a foreign actor like Klaus Schwab or Xi Jinping.

Admittedly, all speculation, but considering the time we’re living in, this stuff cannot be ruled out nowadays.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Already looking forward to 2-dollar cans of vegetables (formerly 89 cents). Can we go to 3???

[frank ballenger]

That’s hopeful. Canadian.

Must be why I heard the gas tanker driver say to the station manager: “Hey, I got a shhedule to follow. Sign this saying you’ll pay the dawwlers, eh?”
Then went off whistling Hallelujah.

[DuncanWaring]

I’m in SW Michigan and haven’t seen any price increases yet.

[GOPJ]

This is what the emergency reserves are for, not for that scumbag Biden to siphon off and give to China.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

[gibsonguy]

Yet…

[bgill]

Hey, Joe, can we get our emergency oil reserves back from China?

[DuncanWaring]

“Roger that” on the “yet”.

[NorthMountain]

undergo damage assessment after a fire knocked out the plant’s electrical power and cooling water systems

Was the fire started by an FBI agent?