anyone wonder about all the "explosions on the gas places?

[greenbriar]

Gas Factory today in St. Louis

refinerys elsewhere


hummm

coincidence or on purpose to keep or raise gas prices???

[walldude]

1. Uh.. the St Louis explosions were at a propane plant

won't effect the price of gas..

[Kraklen]

2. More like cutting safety costs.

If a teddy bear manufacturing plant exploded, then I'd be suspicious. Explosive gas pressurizing company- not so much.

[newswolf56]

3. Same sort of thing happened during the Reagan years.

I don't remember the exact numbers, but (in typically GOP/war-on-workers fashion) Reagan radically reduced safety inspectors in all industries, and industrial accidents went off the scale. Seems to me at the time it was reported there were more coal mine accidents during the eight Reagan years than in the previous 40 years (or something very close to that). In any case, typical: anything to put money in the monopolists' pockets, and all the better if it kills a few workers in the process.

[Kraklen]

5. I spent a couple of years in Louisiana in the early nineties.

Every few weeks or so another refinery would explode.

I remember hearing the story behind one on the news. A survivor was working one story underneath another employee when he heard the second employee say "oh, shit!" followed by an explosion that killed her and launched debris into people's backyards miles away. Apparently she turned a knob the wrong way. That shouldn't be happening.

[silver10]

4. Yes, safety regulations and oversight has been cut

they hinder business too much, and cost jobs.

[DistressedAmerican]

6. Tinfoil Hat Time!

They do not need a refinery explosion to drive up the price of oil. The Saudis that own our president do a fine job on their own!