Refinery Emissions ignored by CARB, nightly air pollution

Ya ever heard of steam? You don't see your breath during the day or when it's warm. At night once it's cooled down and humid, you see the steam..

You ever heard of refinery pollution? It's true that the cracking process uses between .5 gallon and 2 gallons of water for each gallon of gasoline produced, but the water that comes out is polluted, toxic, dumped into waterways such as Dominguez Channel. Sometimes you can see emissions in the daytime, sometimes you can't; it has to do with when they have to dump it, not with visibility.

not all of that is burn off. most of what u see is steam

Now that's the truth.

Oil-paid goons post lies on here; but the reality is, as every person who lives in the shadow of a refinery or downwind from it must admit, refining oil is a terrible source of air pollution; even with all the bribes, even AQMD had to admit it.

Ironically, the oil extraction and refining industry is the largest industrial user of natural gas and electric power; the energy it takes to REFINE a barrel of oil, if used in an EV, would take that EV as far as the REST of the barrel takes an oil-fired car. And save a half barrel of potable water, too.

wow.... this guy must be a genius. The so called "devils brew" is called steam Einstein. And the reason you see more at night is due to the temperature of the air. Not to mention you are driving around the refinery in a car probably using gas made at this refinery. If you care so much about the air and the community try riding a bike......

Read the FACTS on the sidebar. The refinery industry is a huge polluter, and not generally even reported. You don't see any in the daytime, and you don't smell the butane and other HxCx in the daytime, either.

Big oil liars claim that environmentalists are stopping them from building new refineries; the truth is, they have to close inefficient refineries because new methods mean that the same refinery can handle much more "throughput". So it's just the consolidation of Big Oil, nothing else.

You're missing the point. It's a SLOGAN, it's proclaiming the importance of living without BURNING oil.

Yes, oil is valuable; it's congealed sunlight. But why burn it foolishly when it can be conserved, we're drawing down millions of years of stored energy.