The Trump administration is authorizing an early shift to the sale of wintertime gasoline blends, its latest move to blunt fuel costs and supply concerns stoked by the war in Iran.
The thing is that you have different grades of oil
This I knew.
and US refineries aren’t actually geared towards the type of oil the US produces.
This I didn’t know and doesn’t make sense to me why it would be the case. I expected US refineries to be optimized for US crudes. “Drill baby drill” has been the rallying cry for the Republican Party for nearly two decades now. At no point did I ever hear them say “Refine baby refine” though.
mainly cause they’ve been running a global empire and it didn’t matter where the inputs came from, everything is optimized for profit rather than resilience
The thing is that you have different grades of oil, and US refineries aren’t actually geared towards the type of oil the US produces.
This I knew.
This I didn’t know and doesn’t make sense to me why it would be the case. I expected US refineries to be optimized for US crudes. “Drill baby drill” has been the rallying cry for the Republican Party for nearly two decades now. At no point did I ever hear them say “Refine baby refine” though.
mainly cause they’ve been running a global empire and it didn’t matter where the inputs came from, everything is optimized for profit rather than resilience