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Nobody wants to build refineries. There is a reason why they call that portion of Texas and Louisiana the cancer coast.
by John23832 2y ago
Nobody wants to build refineries. There is a reason why they call that portion of Texas and Louisiana the cancer coast.
- 486sx33 2y agoI think you mean “cancer alley”
- beerandt 2y agoWhich was debunked as being the same map you see everywhere else making bs claims about the south. The clusters are poor and poor health, but have no statistical significance to pollution levels.
- John23832 2y ago> The clusters are poor and poor health, but have no statistical significance to pollution levels Yeah, because the rich don’t want a refinery in their nice neighborhood. The second order effect being that the cancer is exported to wherever the refinery lands. https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/documents/waiting_to_die_final.pdf https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/documents/wa... Get it while it’s hot.
- beerandt 2y agoThe heavy crude processing is a maintenance cost sink. Reverting to processing local oil is both cheaper equipment wise (removing the heavy crude vessels and selling them) and cheaper bc you don't pay to pipe oil with the viscosity of sludge across the continent. Fed quotas are the reason for the current config, configuration, economics.