refinery

The markup on those, out of the refinery is already 20 to 50% and he has not even started yet.

Some of the price is from taxes, transportation and refinery costs which have not changed.

So you can't make more profit next quarter off a refinery expansion today if you can't raise the dough to do a refinery expansion today due to collapsing prices.

For beautiful economic optimality, tax pollution directly at the power plant, the gas pump, and the polluting refinery/mine/whatever.

Erm, how to put this delicately...it's difficult to design and construct a bridge or refinery in two-week sprints.

My father handled public and government relations for the oil refinery in that small town.

You call them when you need to move a zinc refinery to the Arctic.

Curiosity, and the fact that you could possibly be stranded in the wilderness without salt and use your body as a refinery.

It's the same reason why you don't buy and own steel, but rather you buy stock in a mining conglomerate or a refinery.

Or for an electrical engineer to sign off on a refinery reactor design.

Snide remarks from teachers were normal (but the school district relied on the refinery's charitable contributions—which my father controlled—so they had to play nice).

It costs billions to create a new oil refinery, yet we do it all the time.

They absolutely do things "for users" in the same sense that an iron refinery does things "for iron ore".

You won't hear an oil company exec say "Inconceivable!" when an iceberg crashes into a North Sea oil rig, or a refinery catches on fire.