Feds: Pipe wall in refinery fire was thin as penny

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Sep 12, 4:18 AM EDT

Feds: Pipe wall in refinery fire was thin as penny

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) -- Federal investigators say a corroded pipe that failed and triggered a fire at one of the nation's largest refineries last month had walls as thin as a penny in some areas.

U.S. Chemical Safety Board officials said Tuesday that a key part of their probe into the fire at the plant in Richmond, Calif., is why Chevron didn't replace the pipe during a routine inspection a year ago.

The Aug. 6 blaze in the San Francisco Bay area knocked an important refinery unit offline, reducing the facility's production. Smoke from the fire sent thousands of residents nearby to hospitals with health complaints.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REFINERY_FIRE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-09-12-04-18-00

Like the negligence of BP and Halliburtion that caused the Gulf Oil spill, only the consequence is a "mere" fire.

Tell me again why it's unfair to tax these people. I just cannot seem to grasp it.

Tell me again how the free market controls this kind of thing, so we should not have regulators. (Actually at this point, the regulators ae more protectors of these guys than they are protectors of ordinary Americans.)

Tell me again why the only casualities in class warfare seem to be the planet, the middle class and the poor, but it's the rich (and the brainwashed) who keep yelling about class warfare. I just can't seem to grasp it.