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In reply to the discussion: There's an Unbearable Chemical Smell Hovering Over Parts of Houston, and Experts Are Worried. [View all]ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)41. I'm A Chemist Myself
I talked to a couple people (one man, one woman) who work at two of the refineries in this area. They tell me that those refineries do not add butanes to the gasoline. The price they get for it (mostly for the foam blowing industry) is too high to waste it in gasolline.
So, not sure how many refineries still do it, but two very large facilities here don't.
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There's an Unbearable Chemical Smell Hovering Over Parts of Houston, and Experts Are Worried. [View all]
bathroommonkey76
Aug 2017
OP
This is horrible! Not only are those fumes possibly poisonous if inhaled, they could also be
smirkymonkey
Aug 2017
#2
Is it too cynical to think that the refineries just dumped a load of crap into the air?
gratuitous
Aug 2017
#4
If it's the asphalt refinery I have done but e the owner and he'd as soon kill everyone
elehhhhna
Aug 2017
#12
I used to live near a refinery and they could be filmed releasing pollution into the bay at night.
58Sunliner
Aug 2017
#29
Despite the fact that all the gas that's being delivered right now was refined to three months ago
elehhhhna
Aug 2017
#13
Fenceline communities cant ... evacuate so they are literally getting gassed by these chemicakls
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
#25
Job killing taxes and regulations have forced them to release the chemicals
IronLionZion
Aug 2017
#28