by Paris Apodaca
The Daily Caller
America’s fuel supply has little room left to absorb a hurricane that knocks Gulf Coast refineries offline, according to federal data and energy analysts.
Isaias had moved too far east to affect any refinery in Louisiana, Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, said in a statement to the DCNF. Lipow said a refinery that shuts down for a storm takes one to two weeks to restart if it is not damaged…
“We really don’t have much cushion,” Steve Milloy, a senior fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, told the DCNF…
Milloy, the Energy and Environment Legal Institute fellow, said the concentration of refining on the Gulf Coast is “another [reason] why we should not have … so much refining capacity concentrated in an area that is prone to storms like this.”
He blamed federal air quality rules and state regulators for that concentration.
“It’s mostly EPA, and then of course you have states like California,” Milloy said…
Milloy called the permitting bill senators are weighing a “success that only a lobbyist could like.”
