ConocoPhillips announced, yesterday, that it is joining Sunoco in ending oil refining in the Philadelphia region if it cannot find a buyer for its refinery in Trainer.
Joining the Obama bread-lines — or SNAP lines rather — will be 400 workers,
Also hundreds of hazardous-waste impregnated acres useless for anything but oil refining will be idled and the United States will become further dependent on Hugo Chavez for gasoline.
And of course a large part of the tax base of tiny Trainer and the Chichester School District, which includes Marcus Hook which is the site of one of the Sunoco plants, will disappear.
Congressman Pat Meehan (R-Pa7) has been warning that this was going to happen almost since he took his oath.
Maybe you can’t blame irrational environmental zealotry entirely for this economic and strategic havoc but no way can it be absolved.
Clearly no attempt was made by the Obama administration to communicate with the plant’s owners regarding attempts to save the plants. There appears to have been no offer to grant waivers — even temporary ones — regarding the ever increasing regulatory burdens which it was placing on them to save the jobs and the infrastructure.
In other news related to the suffering caused by stupid people setting policy, the cost of health insurance rose 9 percent since 2010.
But, but, but that wasn’t supposed to happen with ObamaCare.
When stupid people who set policy say something is going to happen, bet otherwise.
C’mon Sarah, Announce!
Get elected.
Then drill baby!
Drill! Drill!Drill!