[dalereed]

If the government and environmentalists don’t stop them we desperatly need refineries.

For starters, start up the refinery on the California coast that they have stopped from using for over 40 years.

[American Constitutionalist]

Start building smaller scale refineries at a cheaper cost but more of them all over the place.
Same thing with building smaller pebble bottom safer nuclear power plants all over the place.
One reason that drives up the cost for most of these things is that they are centralized.
The same thing with government... when it's centralized it's less efficient.
Build more and more smaller scale refineries that could possibly made mobile ? modular ? that can be taken down and set back up in another area as needed.
Make more use of modular designs.
Have them put more funds into research and development into more smaller refineries, make them more modular, more efficient.
With a oil refinery that is not centralized it becomes less prone to risk of terrorism or some other accident.