Bubbabob > wrote in
. 3.30:

> Michel Boucher > wrote:
>
>> It's called a pipeline. Eastern Canada has no oil, but we have
>> refineries which turn the crude we get through the Portland
(Maine)
>> pipeline into useable products. I'm not fond of the process, but
>> having refineries close to the source is not a necessity.
>
> It is if you're worried about people blowing up your energy
> infrasctructure.

Blowing up? I'd say the majority of your oil problems are related to
stuff blowing away, not up. So far, the only action against your
petroleum supply has come from Nature, and of course the oil
companies jacking up the price because of so-called shortages.

It would seem silly to put refineries near sources which themselves
are constantly in the path of hurricanes. And you thought it was al-
Qaeda; all this time it was Mater Natura...

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