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We were returning from baby sitting in eastern Contra Costa County from 4:30 pm to 5 ish on 4 west bound.

I could see the dark smoke about 30 miles away when we got west of Antioch.

Being familiar with this stuff, it looked like an unplanned burnoff. (Unplanned due to electrical power reliability or an unplanned incidence.)

As we exited off of the Cummings Skyway to go on 80 North, we could see the tower with a big controlled flame and a lot of black smoke in the burnoff phase. It was a big burnoff and a lot of black smoke. We were within a mile or so of the tower.

The refineriers are very old. The enviral nazis and the anti oil/gas/driving/suv nazis have not allowed a new refinery to be built in N. Kali for probably at lease a decade. A hot day like today with flucuating electrical power could have caused this unplanned incidence which resulted in the huge burnoff. Our gasoline prices will probably go oup 10 cents per gallon before the weekend.

We are at the same critical state of old gasoline refineries barely able to keep up with the demand just like what caused our blackouts in 2000/2001. The same clymers are at fault. The enviral nazis and those communists who hate anyone who drives any vehicle. They have not allowed any new gasoline refineries.

Then we have a double whammy. We have the mandated carcinogen MTBE in our gas. So we can't import cheaper gas from Nevada, Oregon or Arizona if we have a problem.