To: ENERGY, LABOR AND NATIONAL EDITORS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expelled a news currently that confirms what a USW has been observant about a impact of shutting down a ConocoPhillips and Sunoco Philadelphia-area refineries: reserve of oil products could be negatively impacted with concomitant cost sensitivity and spikes.
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Refineries in a Northeast granted about 40 percent of a region's gasoline sales and 60 percent of essence (diesel fuel and heating oil) sales in 2010, a news said. About half of this supply came from a 3 refineries that could be close down permanently.
"The EIA's news indicates a series of ways that oil product reserve and pricing for a Northeast could be negatively affected," pronounced USW International Vice President Gary Beevers. "Northeast consumers merit a fast supply of gasoline, heating oil and diesel but cost spikes. There is really income to be done by gripping these 3 refineries open."
"The probable permanent closure of these 3 refineries paints a dour design for consumers in a northeast United States," pronounced USW Local 10-1 President Jim Savage who works during Sunoco's Philadelphia refinery. "It is time for a extensive appetite process to strengthen a mercantile and appetite confidence of genuine people, rather than withdrawal it to a whims of oil association CEO's in their never finale hunt for some-more and some-more profits."
The EIA pronounced choice reserve of oil products could come from a Gulf Coast; increasing product imports, generally of gasoline; some-more outlay from remaining Northeast refineries; and rail shipments from Midwest refineries. But there are problems with these options as well.
"Remember how many of a Gulf Coast refineries were down after Katrina and a Northeast refineries had to collect adult a slack?" pronounced USW Local 10-901 President Dave Miller who works during Sunoco's Marcus Hook refinery. "Think of how high a cost of gas will go when a 3 refineries aren't there to cover for a detriment of Gulf Coast supply."
"Oil product imports aren't a answer, either," pronounced USW Local 10-234 President Denis Stephano who works during a ConocoPhillips refinery in Trainer, Pa. "Isn't it bad adequate that we're contingent on Mideast oil reserve and now we turn contingent on other countries for a gasoline and heating oil? How does that make a republic some-more secure in a inhabitant confidence crisis?"
Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.) decried a shutdown of a Sunoco and ConocoPhillips refineries and a impact this will have on Northeast consumers.
"This research by a Department of Energy shows that these oil companies are putting increase forward of a people vital in a Northeast," pronounced Rep. Markey, tip Democrat on a Natural Resources Committee. "As temperatures dump this winter, consumers in a Northeast shouldn't have to face cost spikes for home heating oil, gasoline and other fuels combined only by oil companies determining to shiver enlightening capacity."
"The closure of these refineries threatens a mercantile contentment of a Northeast," Beevers said. "In a past, supervision stepped in when private attention threatened commerce. It's time it does so again."
The full EIA research can be found here:
Rep. Edward J. Markey's press recover can be found here:
A duplicate of a minute from Reps. Markey, Waxman and Brady to a EIA can be found during
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Contact: Lynne Baker, USW Communications, c) 615-828-6169
Jim Savage, Sunoco Local 10-1 Phila., c) 215-510-2281 Dave Miller, Sunoco Local 10-901 Marcus Hook, kinship hall) 610-485-3519 Denis Stephano, ConocoPhillips Local 10-234, c) 484-716-6242SOURCE United Steelworkers (USW)
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News referensi http://news.yahoo.com/usw-says-government-analysis-confirms-shutdown-philadelphia-area-182711150.html
