18-wheeler explodes at San Antonio refinery

WFAA ^ | 05 may 2010 | Not given...

[TXnMA]

SAN ANTONIO -- An 18-wheeler being loaded with fuel at a San Antonio refinery has exploded.

Television stations showed footage Wednesday of an enormous black plume spewing from the AGE Refining Inc. unit on the city's southeast side.

Refinery marketing director Jeff Morrow says the truck exploded late Wednesday morning at the facility that refines gas and jet fuel, but he had no other details.

San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood told KENS-TV that the fire had spread to the refining facility, and authorities were trying to assess whether neighbors should be evacuated.

[MrB]

I’d pay $4 a gallon from now until November if it guaranteed a veto-proof majority of conservatives
in Congress.

[umgud]

So, is today Day One?

[justsaynomore]

Well, for one, I am not and have never been a conspiracy type person, but I’ll admit Obama has me wondering about things I never wondered about before, and I certainly feel less safe than ever.

In any case, I was making an observation. I personally do not remember so many “explosions” in a short amount of time.

I stand corrected.

I do not think it is conspiracy-minded at all to think Al-Queda would target refineries, nor do I think it is strange to hear about so many fires explosions and attempted bombings in one month and think “terrorism”.

[SoldierDad]

I need my eyes examined - I initially read that as, ". . . spraying Reid on the facist . . . " I guess five years is much too long between eye exams.

[spunkets]

"...Scully Groundhog). If a proper grounding connection was not maintained, the control logic would not permit product loading.

thanks. I knew the system was safe, just not the details.

[SoldierDad]

Day one for . . . ???

[commish]

Can you please post a source? When I researched this I got very different numbers (more like one disaster every few years)

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/usw-chastises-oil-industry-for-weekly-refinery-fires,1278928.shtml

Actual locations list is on the Dept of energy website.

[skr]

On one level, same thing

[MEG33]

Indeed

[Zeddicus]

Was a 40-something white male who doesn’t like the health care bill seen changing his shirt anywhere in the vicinity?

[spunkets]

"FP is Non sequitor (and, I think your meaning “auto-ignition temp” which is much higher)

No. FP is a test where the fluid in a dish is heated under a flame. When the flame ignites the vapors the temp the dish/fluid was at is called the flash point(open cup).

" LEL and vapor build-up is more approrpriate."

Those considerations are inherently contained in the flash point test.

[tiredoflaundry]

Eco or Muslims terrorists?

[justsaynomore]

Thanks for the link.

I will take this info into consideration; however, I’ll feel a bit better with some numbers from sources other than this current administration.

[metmom]

It was just an accident no doubt. Accidents happen, you know.

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.....

[commish]

however, I’ll feel a bit better with some numbers from sources other than this current administration.

LOL. Well, there is that.

[massmike]

In Texas?

....Must be Bush's fault!

[BP2]

> why am I getting these chills all of a sudden when I read this...?

Because unlike Conservatives, the far-Left has been motivated in the past to act in such a way.

Would an eco-terrorist hurt the Environment to "protect" the Environment in the long term? Yes they would! For example ...

Earth Liberation Front's (ELF) mission is to defend and protect the Earth for future generations by means of direct action.

"The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." Alinsky Rules for Radicals, Chapter 2 "Of Means and Ends"

[w1andsodidwe]

Light Rail what a good idea. If I want to go from one end of downtown San Jose or Sacramento to the other end, why it’s just the ticket.

[umgud]

Day one for . . . ???

Obama has made much ado about being on top of the gulf spill since day one.

[Right Wing Assault]

Obama will have to shut down all the refineries now.

And not reopen them until they find a way to produce abundant, safe, non-flammable gas and jet fuel.