• radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 hours ago

    The lack of investment in the types of oil refineries to refine US oil domestically isn't as much for optics purposes. But that relative to the amount of investment required to build new refineries to compete with the current foreign ones isn't a good return on investment relative to the up front cost and the existing profits of the current arrangement.

    • Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      the government should at least subsidize a couple so in the event of an apocalypse we can make our own gasoline.