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Originally Posted by SebC
Refined products. A refinery doesn't make one product, it makes a wide variety of products. That's fine if you're on a coast, as the products will be travelling by ship. If the refinery is inland, then instead of building one pipeline to the coast you'd have to build several, or ship via truck/train. And yeah, building a refinery here just isn't economically worthwhile vs. increasing our extraction output. The government could subsidize one, but subsidies create deadweight losses (and could contravene our free trade agreements) so that's not worth doing either.
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You can batch products in a single line. It happens all the time. In fact there are lines that batch products and crude.