Bad idea to put a tarsands refinery here. Low profit, minimal job creation, huge upfront expense.
We should just ship the tarsands directly to Texas as is, sand and all. We already ship copper to China as a 23% rocky slurry as its too expensive and dirty to refine here.
Especially this year, and for as many years as the California drought exists:
Then we could conserve natural gas, and sell natgas straight to the desalination plant in Santa Barbera (which is adjacent to a natgas electricity producer, required to keep the plant running) and other "emergency" natgas power producers that will need to run this year because of low hydroelectric power output because of low water levels. By next year, Hoover dam may be half output, and the only immediate ability to create electricity is natgas as the US did not invest in Coal power plants.
Water rationing started early, but if it gets hot - California will be electricity rationing as well (Fines for having thermostat set below 25 celsius would be my guess)
Last edited by ZenOps; 04-19-2015 at 10:56 AM.
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