Chevron To Build Refinery

Chevron To Build Refinery

After finding that gas storage tanks at the former Chevron station on the corner of Main and Washington had been leaking gas into the Julian water supply for years, the station was closed down and demolished. Chevron has since been carrying out projects to rid the water supply of gasoline. They have finally realized, especially with the run-up in gas prices is that the old adage to make lemonade out of lemons is good advice except in their case they are going to make gas out of gas. Since the methods used haven’t rid the water of gas, they are going to start pumping as if they had an oil well on the corner and refining the gas into Chevron Supreme again and making some money out of the deal This will go on until the ground is depleted of petroleum, which they are able to do quite well normally. A gasoline refinery in the middle of town is not exactly what most people want, but in addition to apple pie and gold we could brag about being oil town. A Chevron spokesman said, “ What are you griping about? The power poles are gone now so a new eyesore doesn’t really impact the town- it’s just different.” This project will be one of the first mini refineries expected to be built in many places across the country, as the permits are easier to obtain than those for big projects.

©2009 Eric Stamets



After finding that gas storage tanks at the former Chevron station on the corner of Main and Washington had been leaking gas into the Julian water supply for years, the station was closed down and demolished. Chevron has since been carrying out projects to rid the water supply of gasoline. They have finally realized, especially with the run-up in gas prices is that the old adage to make lemonade out of lemons is good advice except in their case they are going to make gas out of gas. Since the methods used haven’t rid the water of gas, they are going to start pumping as if they had an oil well on the corner and refining the gas into Chevron Supreme again and making some money out of the deal This will go on until the ground is depleted of petroleum, which they are able to do quite well normally. A gasoline refinery in the middle of town is not exactly what most people want, but in addition to apple pie and gold we could brag about being oil town. A Chevron spokesman said, “ What are you griping about? The power poles are gone now so a new eyesore doesn’t really impact the town- it’s just different.” This project will be one of the first mini refineries expected to be built in many places across the country, as the permits are easier to obtain than those for big projects.

©2009 Eric Stamets