CitizenK

Isomerization units, naphtha reformers and alkylation units with Isomerate, reformate and alkylate are their respective products. After California regulated cars to have catalytic converters, ships brought alkylate from Louisiana to California and straight run gasoline from California to Louisiana ...

[quote]supposedly fantastic at gathering intel (paying people for information and secrets), but horrible at managing the operations they put into action, which often end up crossing each other...[/quote] He never stayed in a CIA safehouse in SE Asia anywhere. It was safer to go to a brothel, pay...

That means that it wasn't stolen with fake ballots and ballot counters doing Trump dirty. You seem awfully schizophrenic on the election topic...

[quote]That's adorable.[/quote] It's good to see that you find facts to be adorable....

[quote]Well with dos bocas and dangote starting up, we're going to go from short refining to quite long. Even with lyondel shutting in q1.[/quote] The reason is that renewable distillates (diesel and jet fuel) are not profitable and it is hard to get enough feed stock. Saraland (Mobile) had been...

[quote]Which refineries?[/quote] I cannot reveal for now. I can guarantee none are in California....

Two refineries "permanently" shutdown, in the US, might be coming back online soon. One of them because renewable fuels loses money despite the subsidies. There is not enough available feedstock in the form of vegetable oil, or brown grease from restaurant fryers. This is bucking the recent t...

[quote]CitizenK, how significant is destroying this above ground infrastructure?[/quote] The European gas market would have jumped up a good bit if any actual damage was done. Ukraine is a major storage spot for European natural gas, especially for Poland. With that knowledge, some pipe and v...

Definitely no major damage to a natural gas storage site. FTR, it's underground storage either in salt caverns or depleted oil/gas wells. Also, Ukraine one of the largest storage capacities in Europe....

[quote]Both can be, and are, true. Russia invading Ukraine gave the MIC something to extract value from.[/quote] Retired tanks, fighting vehicles and other with old technology that no one in the MIC gives two shits about anymore? Got it....