What’s the problem? A relaxed regulatory environment will bring more jobs to the state! (s)
This obviously calls for the elimination of several safety regulations and industry oversight boards.
There are at least 6 new jobs available already!
Superior Fire Chief Steve Panger says six people were taken to hospitals in Duluth, Minnesota.
Plus they have now found another way not to refine oil!
See the market will find the least expensive and less dangerous way to do things if you just let them try all the cheaper more dangerous ways first, with the added bonus of fewer people looking for a job!
And the heat from the explosion will help offset a chillier than usual start to spring! Huzzah for the glories of the free market!
Let’s just hope those communist moochers who got themselves blown up didn’t have the audacity to expect their sweet, precious, blessed employer to provide them with health insurance. After all, they are free to shop around for local doctors who will accept goods or services in barter instead of relying on un-American socialism at a forced cost to the business.
The refining process is highly dangerous as you heat crude oil to crack it into the more useful components that we all use every day.
For all the snark here, let’s remember that actual people were hurt in this incident.
I blame the safety regulations. Too many regulations.
This is fake…all crisis actors…designed to make people want to stop using fossil fuels something something climate change hoax.
has a professing capacity
I know people here who can profess even biglyer.
They are labor costs, not actual people. Try to keep up.
If only a “Good Guy With An Exploding Refinery” had been there, this whole tragedy could have been avoided…
Edited for clarity:
Reductive Asshole.
And I’ve known some professors who were fossils, themselves.
Troll.
That refinery is OLD. I remember it from the 50’s. Lots of bad smells when we went to visit my aunt and uncle, who lived nearby.
This is one more in a long list of why we need better safety regs rather than fewer, worse ones and “self-inspection” or “voluntary standards”.
Most refineries in the U.S. are not just old, but VERY old – some having been in continuous operation since before WWII.
Environmental liability (and regulations such as they are) make it difficult to build new ones – so the old ones are rebuilt & refit over and over. Not saying that it should be easy to build new ones, just noting that it takes a lot to cheaply gas in our cars – and most of that is unseen by the consumer as they pull in and out of the gas station.
Oh spare us. This is the cost of avoiding regulations.
Reiterated for clarity: Troll