# Why no new refineries?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-new-refineries/450149 "2008-05-21T20:13:08Z")\
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[QUOTE=featherlou]  
I don’t know if that would help. Canada has lots and lots of oil, we have refineries, and we’re paying more for gas than you US Americans.  
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I was thinking that it would help to divorce the idea of building refineries from the profit motive. If refineries are necesarily a too-risky money sink for private industry to take on … well, perhaps for the public good the government can step in and build some.

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