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Old 06-05-2008, 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Teak View Post
Those refiners were closed down because they could not be brought up to the clean air standards enviromentalists pushed thru, or even brought close to them. Just as most of those operating today should be closed for the same reason.
I noticed this part pertaining to the New Refinery:


Hyperion touted the so-called "green" technology in its proposed energy center, which it claims would be the world's cleanest. The refinery would process 400,000 barrels of tar sands crude a day from Alberta into low-sulfur gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.


The part about "tar sands" caught my eye. The Tri-State area around Colorado supposedly has the largest deposits of shale oil in the World. It sounds as though we're now investing in tapping into it.
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