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Where gasoline is cheap, and why it's making yours pricey
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Schindler" data-source="post: 706314" data-attributes="member: 56140"><p>Bill V,</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I did know about the other point made. Why make more gas and end up lowering the price of gas so essentially you make less money per gallon?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As it also said, finding land is hard because nobody want a refinery next to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Price to build a refinery is astronomical and to top it off, the ongoing support to keep it running is stagering.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For example, the company I used to work for had a contract with one refinery. We were one of 6 NDE labs working out of that place. Our gross income from that one refinery was over $250,000.00/year. We were one of 6 NDE labs there and we had the smallest crew there and we were only there for about a total of 4 months a year. Construction crews are in there almost every day. These are not employees of the refinery, but outside contractors. Turn ARounds, TAR's, usually take 2 to 3 weeks to happen and employ hundreds and sometimes thousands of people to make it happen. Crane rentals, injuries, and some must other things cost bundles.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I do somewhat understand what it takes to make gas. Though I don't completely understand it, I know the miles and miles of piping it goes through just to be refined through many processes before the fuel is filtered, filtered, filtered, blended, filtered, etc. before it is even ready to go in our vehicles.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...and dealing with security issues is a whole other topic.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Tom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Schindler, post: 706314, member: 56140"] Bill V, I did know about the other point made. Why make more gas and end up lowering the price of gas so essentially you make less money per gallon? As it also said, finding land is hard because nobody want a refinery next to them. Price to build a refinery is astronomical and to top it off, the ongoing support to keep it running is stagering. For example, the company I used to work for had a contract with one refinery. We were one of 6 NDE labs working out of that place. Our gross income from that one refinery was over $250,000.00/year. We were one of 6 NDE labs there and we had the smallest crew there and we were only there for about a total of 4 months a year. Construction crews are in there almost every day. These are not employees of the refinery, but outside contractors. Turn ARounds, TAR's, usually take 2 to 3 weeks to happen and employ hundreds and sometimes thousands of people to make it happen. Crane rentals, injuries, and some must other things cost bundles. I do somewhat understand what it takes to make gas. Though I don't completely understand it, I know the miles and miles of piping it goes through just to be refined through many processes before the fuel is filtered, filtered, filtered, blended, filtered, etc. before it is even ready to go in our vehicles. ...and dealing with security issues is a whole other topic. Tom [/QUOTE]
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