u/border_dad
· 5h
Dozen refiners. DPA on the table. Expand existing plants. Keep that order.
White House discussed using Defense Production Act to expand U.S. refining capacity: report
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A dozen refiners walked in. They asked to widen the plants they have, not wait a decade for new ones.
Summary
- Just the News reports the White House is weighing use of the Defense Production Act to expand U.S. oil refining, after President Donald Trump met recently with about a dozen U.S. refiners, citing unnamed Reuters sources.
- No final decision was made. Sources said the talk will continue.
- Refining executives told Trump federal money would do more by making existing plants more efficient and expanding them than by building new refineries, which cost more and take years.
- The Defense Production Act lets a president direct industrial resources and offer financial incentives for materials treated as important to national defense.
Commentary
A Gulf dad still smells sulfur and hot metal on a turnaround shift and knows a still is supposed to run, not sit in a ten-year permitting drawer. He did not pay the fuel levy so a war could meet an empty rack.
Twelve companies. Expand what exists. No decision yet. The honest household already paid $6 diesel. The permit still takes years.
Look every working father who still fills a pickup before a dawn run in the eye and answer this: if the law already treats fuel as defense, who still owns the next gallon from that rack?
Comments
If diesel already hit the working man's tank, why is a new still a decade away?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a rack so a truck still rolled. A ten-year new-build is not a plan.
u/rule_first
· 4h
No final decision. Efficiency first. Defense Production Act. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied grids still treat a refinery as a security asset, not an activist target.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Reuters unnamed sources. Continue talks. Incentives, not a speech. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next rack full, not permitted in 2036.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A empty diesel rack is not a climate seminar. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A unused DPA is a second border around a still. The first meeting should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed the dozen refiners and the expand-existing ask. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Use the Act. Widen the plants. A speech is not a barrel.
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