Comment Re:How Much is The Environment Worth? (Score 1) 490
they have been finding excuses for the last 20+ years to avoid expanding refining capacity, blaming it on environmental regulation in particular
Wrong. Refining capacity has expanded significantly in the U.S. while no new refineries are built precisely because of EPA roadblocks. Far cheaper, faster, and easier to expand than build new. This concentrates throughput and pollution at existing sites.
Typical slashdot circle jerk. Half-educated pious nerds finding substitutional self gratification by pounding their plastic keyboards while sitting in their air conditioned apartments, surrounded by synthetics representing tons of crude oil, sludge, and air pollution ... certain of their intellectual and moral superiority over the ape-like red-staters who mine, drill, process, and pump the stuff in mindless subservience to 'the man' ... happy to use it in their their car, furnace, airliner, powerplant ... but unwilling to face the consequences of their actions while denigrating the adults in the world who, thank God, supply it.
Grow up, boys and girls.
Wrong. Refining capacity has expanded significantly in the U.S. while no new refineries are built precisely because of EPA roadblocks. Far cheaper, faster, and easier to expand than build new. This concentrates throughput and pollution at existing sites.
Typical slashdot circle jerk. Half-educated pious nerds finding substitutional self gratification by pounding their plastic keyboards while sitting in their air conditioned apartments, surrounded by synthetics representing tons of crude oil, sludge, and air pollution
Grow up, boys and girls.
