Re: oil refining conspiracy?

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:31 AM [PDT],
Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm always ready to embrace the idea of corporate collusion (we don't
> call it conspiracy in micro economics.  Actually we don't call it
> collusion, either) but although it crossed my mind when I heard about
> the Valero fire I don't see why they'd bother under these
> circumstances.  In fact they might rather keep from offending the
> public further, rather than inflame another refinery.
> 
> Gene Coyle
> 

There was a recent spate of news articles(none of which I saved) regarding
the refining industry's rate of breakdowns, shutdowns, and accident record.
There aren't that many refining facilities in the US(one of OPEC's common 
comebacks to our panicked requests for more OPEC output.), and perhaps,
just perhaps, the facilities are just as antiquated as the steel mills in Pensylvania
were before they were abandoned in favor of imported steel. 

Was Cheney's energy council, with it's pipeline and infrastructure maps of
Iraq's oil industry, going to commit some sort of covert "marshall plan" on
the Iraqi facilities and slowly mothball US refining operations as one of the
world's most biosphere unfriendly industries was slowly moved to Iraq and 
points east (and Africa)?

Sidebar:
Travus T. Hipp Commentary [ August 09 2005 ]:

Followup: Dick Cheney's National Energy Task Force -
Look at the policies and you can see who bought who

Rebuttal by Newton Ames for The Monolithic Oil Co.

Music by Loudon Wainwright III

http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/08/august-09-2005-travus-t-hipp-morning.html
[ Mp3 Audio 64Kbps Mono 4.7mb 9:32min ]

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