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The USA can already refine more oil than it can produce

So not even the "energy security" argument works in favour of more indigenous refining capacity. If you're importing the crude oil, you might as well import the gasoline - the two commodities are about equally fungible. Global refining capacity has generally kept pace with requirements. There is some speculation that investors are getting nervous about buying into new refining capacity just as Peak Oil arrives and oil supplies are about to start declining. Arguments like piece-it pete's are just more anti-environmental kvetching from the business-as-usual crowd.

Where the environmentalists may have done humanity an enormous disservice, though, is with their obstruction of nuclear power development. That is one piece of the energy puzzle that desperately needs to be expanded. Obstruction of nuclear power with its zero deaths per year from power generation is going to fling the world headlong into the arms of coal, with its millions of deaths per year from normal operation. All because innumerate greens can't get past Helen Caldicott's ooga-booga and examine the facts.


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