redghost wrote:
What of all the shuttered refineries. They are just dormant superfund sites. I am sure that somebody will get the bright idea to fire them back up.
Towards the end of when I lived in Alma, MI, Lamar-Diamond-Shamrock bought out the former Total oil refinery and dismantled it. I don't know the whole story, but the rumor I heard was that it was so old and so lacking in pollution controls that it was worth more as scrap and for pollution reduction credits than as an operating refinery. I remember driving past the huge flare towers, when I was a kid, and smelling the strong sulfur odor. Every time there was a fire there the property values on that end of town dropped a bit more.
The big question people were mulling over when I left was what to do with the creek that runs through the property. Apparently there was so much petroleum waste in it that the creek bottom looked like asphalt.
