WTH are our refineries clustered?
 

We could loose 30% of our refining capacity due to Rita? Is there a reason so many of our refineries are clustered in one area?

- Skip

'cause it's where the tankers and platforms are?
;)

Nobody wants these in their backyard, so they go to La and Texas where the chemical companys get great tax incentives.

Well, the oil industry has been big in Texas since Spindletop.

The delivery of feed stock, the ability to share power and steam. Most adjoining chem plants will use the by products of the refineries. Ability to use each others pipeline capabilities and tank farms.

Bush.

All those chem companys were there long before even georges father

Bush hates refineries.

What about gas stations ?
We used to have one on every corner in our area, and in the shortage in the seventy's they had big lines. Now we have half as many stations storing fuel that the consumer can access and twice as many cars/people.

They're all clustered there because legislation won't allow them to be built anywhere else...

And George Bush does not care about the Off-Topic section.

this is the reason.

anywhere else and the cost would go WAY up. best way to move crude is by ship. no way around it.

The refineries were built there because that's where the crude oil was found some many years ago.Nothing more/nothing less. How stupid, yes stupid ,can the current crop of citicizens get.Are there shadows in everything that occurs?

Boy, I guess that's why they pump oil all the way from Bakersfield to Torrance to refine it, because the oil was over 100miles away.
Not all these younger guys may relize somethings. They have to be taught.

Stupid? Why stupid? Ignorant I could easily accept, obviously.

I don't feel stupid.

I hear that is the first sign. :eek:

No, wait. .. that's not it. The first sign of stupid is when one reads WAY too much in to a posted question (clandestine wha'?). . . and reacts with outrage to nothing that was there to begin with. ;)

oh, and our refineries are clustered in one area, cuz some people figured it would be the best sol'n. $

Outrage?

Bush hates outrage...

There are no stupid questions; however, there are stupid people asking questions. ;)

The refineries are where the ports are. I assume that most of the supertankers crossing the Panama Canal with crude from Venezuela go to Houston, because it is the shortest road. Guess why there are refineries in Newark, NJ too?

Aurel

Umm...
Crude from Venezuela doesn't go through the canal....

Aurel seemingly can't see anything on the "right." ;)

Should have known that.
Sorry Aurel!
SmileWavy

Okay, I'm going to give Aurel a break here. You could, if ya squint, read that as; the supertankers crossing the (entrance to the) Panama Canal with crude from Venezuela go to Houston, . .. . . .Rather than "crossing [thru] the..."

I mean, hey, the canal entrance is close to their path. . like only 700 miles.:cool:

Oh.
Yeah.
"crossing the entrance."
Yeah. Right. I got it.
:rolleyes:

Although I do believe his heart was in the right place.

Refineries are most often located where bulk crude is more easily offloaded, whether by tanker, barge or pipeline. From there the final products are distributed.

Ya mean nobody figured it out? It's almost the same as why Willie Sutton robbed banks. All the refineries are down there 'cause that's where the oil is.