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Originally Posted by TheStripey1
Good idea...
maybe you could convince the oil company CEOs to stop dragging their feet and actually build some new refineries there.
I heard a few weeks ago someone suggest using closed military bases which seemed like a good idea to me at the time. I have since learned the oil companies don't like that idea because the bases are not close to existing pipelines. So I'm thinking, the brownfields would also have to be close to those pipelines.
Are they?
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I think the people who are dragging their feet are the environmentalists. Stifling growth suits both their stated and actual agenda. I don't see why a CEO beholden to stockholders would want to stifle growth in his company, since stock value is dependent on growth potential.
Military bases are typically as far away from urban areas as possible. But not always. Brownfields are typically in urban areas. Pipelines typically go to urban areas to feed "tank farms", which of course, feed the urbanites huge appetite for fuel.