Maybe their ideas could help when planning a new refinery. (There aren’t many new refineries being built, however.) Changing the sequence of fractionation columns in an existing refinery could be a very expensive undertaking.
[[(There aren’t many new refineries being built, however.)]]
And htere’s a reason for that- congress won’t allow them to build hte necessary refineries which would drop prices to where they should be- We have a glut of unrefined oil, but not enough facilities to process the crude- what refineries we do have are workign at near maximum capacity, and can’t efficiently meet the whole need of consumers (or just barely)- as well, tankers have been sitting off the coasts just wating for prices to rise again (no thanks to hte speculators) before brinign in their oil when hte oil dropped back around $1.90 not long ago.
It’s all one big freakin game with the govenrment and suppliers and speculators- meanwhile. familes in colder regions have to suffer because they can’t afford the price increases- sitting around in coats and hats i ntheir homes during winter months- soem familes even havign to go without heat altogether for short periods