[Superman]

Yeah, I read about the NIMBY and Greenpeace stuff you mentioned after the part about the impact studies and regulatory hurdles.

But okay, yeah, I get it. Perhaps you're suggesting the NIMBY and Greenpeace complications are more expensive than the regulatory stuff. And maybe that's true. Fact is that oil refinery equipment is wildly expensive. And so, it probably makes sense to essentially "outsource" that stuff. Somebody has built enough excess capacity to perform our refining work for us. Who needs American jobs, anyway. And American national security. And again, high fuel prices are not the end of the world, at least not from the perspective of the oil industry.