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Maybe you Northerners need to readjust your criticism of the South. It appears the Southern states may control your fuel supplies,...including how warm you may be during severely cold weather.
Northeastern states are slated to lose half of their regional capacity for fuel production by midyear as financial woes push refineries there to idle, a trend likely to increase the region's dependency on Gulf Coast supply.
Oil is a commodity. You can impede flow to one place or another but not stop it.
Im in the NE. Shrug I have nothing against the South.
Of course my mind wanders to whether the real reason to shut down production is to increase price. NAW corps would never do that. Hmm thats not a southern thing is it?
Not to worry as the Canadians are developimg their offshore fields and building the necessary refineries for their own use and for export to the northeast. Eventually we will no longer need oil from the south.
According to some sources, the refineries that are being closed have not been profitable for eight of the last ten quarters. Also, government regulation of ultra-low sulphur diesel and heating oil has made some refineries obsolete.
Currently the northeast is importing refined fuels from outside the US, but as regulations on diesel and heating oil become more stringent that will be more difficult. Why is the northeast still using huge amounts of heating oil for winter heat? Is not natural gas or electricity more efficient and less prone to pollution?
The whole North vs South thing exsists only in the eyes of Southerners.
If I had a dollar for each and every time I have been slammed by people from the north, solely on the basis of where I live, I could retire.
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