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To: TigerPaw who wrote (266700)12/31/2005 1:00:02 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1578927
 
"Those Houston refineries blow themselves up on a regular basis."

And as a result, they are spaced so that the whole plant won't go up at the same time. So a terrorist, assuming they could get on premises with their explosives, couldn't do all that much damage.



To: TigerPaw who wrote (266700)12/31/2005 1:38:31 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1578927
 
I thought the refiners blow them up whenever the price of gas goes down..