Re: from Greg Palast [fact check failure]

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How is this in any way inconsistent with what Palast wrote?  Oil,
destined for the California market and to be refined under strict
CAL-EPA safeguards, is now shut off.


Bill

On Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 11:12:49 (-0700) Leigh Meyers writes:
>Jim Devine quoted Greg Palast:
>> But $2 a barrel is just the beginning of BP's shut-down bonus. The
>> Alaskan oil was destined for the California market which now faces a
>> supply crisis at the very height of the summer travel season.  The big
>> winner is ARCO petroleum, the largest retailer in the Golden State.
>> ARCO is a 100%-owned subsidiary of � British Petroleum. 
>One of the reasons that gas costs more in California is Alaskan oil 
>cannot be legally prccessed in California without strict CAL-EPA 
>safeguards, specifically because of the high sulphur content.
>For instance, the refineries in ther bay area [see tosco, mentioned on 
>the linked page] pretty much only proccess fuel oil (heating and plant 
>operation) and export products from it. 
><http://www.chemoil.com/news/Presentations_Optimism.asp?lable=presentation>
>
>Gregg Palast is now officially the Geraldo Rivera of the left in my 
>mind. I don't want to feel the need to de-bug his information before 
>passing it on.
>
>But there IS a bright side. Mis-information based on the lack of simple 
>fact-checking would be a good reason for some of the more radical 
>members of the eco-left to set him adrift on an oil rig deep in the 
>Arctic Circle. Buh-bye Greg.
>
>
>Leigh
>http://leighm.net/