Substitute "not been allowed" for your "refused"! It is nearly impossible to build a refinery in the US!
Fuel prices will continue to climb as hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indians upgrade from bicycles to motorbikes to small autos!
Meanwhile..., demagogues will rave on throughout this country's "leadership" while SOLVING NOTHING!!!
REfineries not allowed to build new ones.
I don’t know if it is true, but I heard recently that while new refineries are not being built, existing refineries have been expanded in size, and thus in capacity.