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23. I was born and raised in the city that had the largest number of oil refineries on the east coast

at one time. Driving down to South Philly to the stadiums and arenas was an adventure, where we learned to quickly roll up the windows as one drove past them.



As one flies into Philly International and the planes circled before landing, you could not help but see them. Going over the Platt Bridge down there was a wonderland of flaming towers burning off excess methane gas.

We have experienced over a half century of infamous refinery fires, just going back to the Gulf Oil Refinery and ARCO Refinery fires in 1975 (the latter site eventually bought by PES that had its own fire just 6 years ago) -

PES has spent that time since 2019 cleaning up and decommissioning the site for other purposes. That site did light/sweet crude. There are still other refineries along the Delaware River including Marcus Hook and I believe most are refining Bakken shale oil.

I guarantee that "Fluffians" know all about these refineries. We're not just "Rocky" or "cheesesteaks" or "Snowballs thrown at Santa at an Eagles game" almost 60 years ago (let alone being the home of Independence Hall, the Declaration of Independence, AND the U.S. Constitution).