California wants to own its own refinery! What would Ellis Wyatt think?
California policymakers are considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries to ensure a reliable supply of gasoline as the number of refineries in the state declines.
An oil industry trade group questions whether the state would have the expertise to effectively run a refinery, citing a lack of “understanding of the industry and how it works.”
Russia. China. Venezuela. Iran. More than a dozen countries make gasoline at state-owned refineries.
Could California be next on the list?
An oil industry trade group questions whether the state would have the expertise to effectively run a refinery, citing a lack of “understanding of the industry and how it works.”
Russia. China. Venezuela. Iran. More than a dozen countries make gasoline at state-owned refineries.
Could California be next on the list?
F- HA HA Act!
A gulch maybe.
Speaking of wildfires, an oil/gas refineries strikes me dino as a great place to start another stupid California policy maker fire.
Now if I was one y.o. I could agree, that to preserve an essential service from the greed of capitalists, take it into public ownership.
Being somewhat over one y.o., and having the events of California fresh in mind, if nothing else, I have a different view.
The government controlled the water supply. There had been a previous season of very good rainfall but vast quantities of water were sent out to sea. When water was needed for fire fighting, reservoirs were empty.
To teach about socialism by all means go to Rand, Hayek, Sowell and Friedman, but
Do not forget the disaster of the Los Angeles fires of January 2025.
It is because stupid people both like and adopt socialism. Americans should know better.
Or maybe they don't because I went to school mostly during the Fifties and the Sixties.
Maybe all that stupid shit should just be called don't Bogart that joint tippy hippy Californian Gaia worship always going up in Woke cool daddy smoke.
Construction cost will be over $100 billion and they'll expect the fedgov to cover their losses like TBTF banks.
How could 45 million fast food customers be wrong?
The article cited two reasons for gasoline consumption in the state declining. Reason #3 was left out: people leaving the state, especially the kind needed to run a refinery.
At least the state can sue itself if anything goes wrong.
Anyways, I know a lot of decent people who go there and change. They buy into the BS. They raise children the state has to incarcerate and wash their hands of any responsibility when they laughed when the young teenager started smoking weed "We all go through those stages". And then he refuses to go to school, and wants to stay in the basement, smoking weed, eating pizza with their friends.
You gave them EVERYTHING Except direction, discipline, and goals. And your plan was to turn the world over to people like them...
Congrats... It worked. Look at the people running the place into the ground. All looters.
Among these refineries, Perm Refinery, Kstovo Refinery, and Volgograd Refinery are privately owned by Lukoil, Yaroslavl Refinery is by Slavneft,
Russia has been moving away from Communism after being one of the most abused country by the deep state in the world . Hence the BRICS creation
I BEG everyone to zoom into a picture of a refinery as I did. And just look at the various pipes going around. Just IMAGINE the CA Government DEI Hires trying to figure out where ONE of those pipes go, over and over again.
Could they do it? Certainly NOT profitably. And probably not in my life time!
Now, here's a GENIUS idea. Stop ATTACKING the owners of the existing refineries, and help them DECIDE to stay in CA.
But that's kinda like making sure there is water in the fire hydrant BEFORE the fire. The SIZE of that MISTAKE is not completely apparent until the fire strikes.
The Refineries leaving is the telltale sign you waited too long, because those that were leaving, probably put off maintenance for the last 10yrs, milking every last dollar out of their soon to be lost investment.
INSANITY. If only CA could get cars to run on hot air... Then their politicians could actually become useful!
As Ayn Rand so aptly summarized in Atlas Shrugged:
"But you expect industrial giants — who plan in terms of decades, invest in terms of generations and undertake ninety-nine-year contracts — to continue to function and produce, not knowing what random caprice in the skull of what random official will descend upon them at what moment to demolish the whole of their effort.
With the sign of the dollar as our symbol — the sign of free trade and free minds — we will move to reclaim this country once more from the impotent savages who never discovered its nature, its meaning, its splendor."
I can only imagine what a Refinery looked like in the 1800s. And how they bolted on trick after trick to extract more value. Ethanol, Methanol, etc. etc.
Funny how what goes around comes around...
screw cali
can we trade south cali for Greenland?
no returns
Jet Girl was the best part of the movie