Back in 2010 I worked on a fiber-optics installation at a refinery in Beaumont, TX. We had to go through a formal safety school to become safety certified before setting foot on the job site.
The safety precautions would do an ammo dump proud!
Greenies, commies and other watermelons hate it that gas is once again affordable, boosting the economy and helping the bottom half of the economic spectrum.
Obama & Co. need another crisis.
Even back in the early 1970’s you couldn’t enter refineries property with a lighter or matches in your pocket.
If you were caught with a lighter or matches on the property you were escorted off by guards and you couldn’t enter the property again.
We were working about a 1/2mile from the refinery itself but inside the fence around the refinery. Open field between us and the refinery.
We were only about 40-50ft from the gate but the guy that smoked had to leave his lighter with the guard at the gate and walk out of the gate to smoke.
Given that a refinery is likely to have pipes filled with substances that are some combination of Caustic, Hot, High Pressure, and Flammable, the Ammo Dump is possibly safer.
Years ago, when I was a teenager, my father, a construction super, took me to the Baton Rouge Exxon Refinery. As we went through the gate, I remember a sign saying: “No Visitors, No Cameras, No Smoking” I looked over at my father, who had a cigarette in his mouth and there was a camera on the dashboard of his company truck. I was, of course, the visitor.