All of the datapoints on this event look sketchy. I’m not saying there was intentional foul play at work, but the appearance of foul play in combination with the obtuse descriptions therein, cannot be avoided. It just looks sketchy.
Exxon’s key refinery in Joliet, Illinois, produces gasoline and diesel fuel. The facility handles 275,000 barrels of crude per day, producing about 11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel every day. {SOURCE}
The refinery operation has been offline for a week following a power disruption “found on ComEd’s primary and secondary power lines feeding into the Joliet refinery.” The company made the statement on Thursday, adding that power to the refinery was fully restored. However, with the power turned off floodwater overwhelmed a pumping station leading to flooding around the refinery which has compounded the outage.
The timing of this; the type of problem, together with the location (40 miles southwest of Chicago, Ill, near the intersection of Interstate 55 and the DesPlaines River) are aligned datapoints in a review of the consequence. Given the nature of geopolitics right now and the intention to politically weaponize the price of gasoline and diesel, everything just looks too coincidental.
NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil said floodwater overwhelmed a pump at its 275,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Joliet, Illinois, according to a filing on Thursday. A containment boom had been deployed as part of the cleanup effort, the filing shows.
Exxon took the Joliet refinery offline on Sunday after a power outage triggered the facility’s safety flare.
The source of the outage was found on ComEd’s primary and secondary power lines feeding into the Joliet refinery, the company said in a statement on Thursday, adding that power to the refinery was fully restored.
The company declined to say whether the pump issue was linked to the power outage.
Industry monitor IIR Energy had expected return to normal service by the end of this week.
The refinery remains offline as of Thursday, according to Wood Mackenzie.
The refinery flared again on Wednesday, according to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, who posted about the incident on X.
The Joliet refinery is a key fuel supplier to the U.S. Midwest. According to the company’s website, it can produce about 11 million gallons per day of gasoline and diesel fuel.
The disruption comes amid a tight global fuel market, with the conflict in the Middle East and Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries putting pressure on fuel supplies.
The U.S. national average price of diesel surpassed $6 a gallon last week and continued to rise this week. (source)
Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious….
Always assume malicious intent unless and until an innocent explanation is proven.
You just can’t hate leftist globalist A-holes enough. Fuel production shutdowns, environmental issues etc are just setting the stage for their false flag “BAD AI” event. They haven’t killed people yet that we know of but wouldn’t rule out their next event(s) to be fatal
So the plandemic didn’t kill anyone?
The vaccine sure did.
The banning and disinformation about certain medicines to curb and fight the pandemic caused many deaths.
Obama library is online drawing down energy for unknown reasons. Feds should investigate.
Don’t eat or drink anything that you didn’t prepare yourself.
Run, everybody. Run for your lives.
“The source of the outage was found on ComEd’s primary and secondary power lines feeding into the Joliet refinery, the company said in a statement on Thursday, adding that power to the refinery was fully restored.“
No mention of what the actual problem was. Were the lines cut? Shorted?
Vague stories like this add to the conspiracy.
As for the pump, no generator backup?
“As for the pump, no generator backup?”
My first thought!
And what caused the power outage? Kamikaze squirrels?
Russian drones of course/s
AI
Got me.
Would think that a big faculty like that is going to have more than one tie in to the grid at that.
Fail-over circuits, automatic switching and backups for the backups. The refinery works on a continuous process. Shutdowns are costly.
It’s commonly referred to as SABOTAGE. Way too convenient timing.
Most likely the same saboteurs that hit all of the food processing facilities
Did it rain a lot there? That was a flood pump overwhelmed if there’s no flooding? This is not my area of expertise. I’m just curious.
A flood pump could be overwhelmed by burning gasoline, or a lot of other things not related to water. And the statement would still be factually correct.
The vagueness of the reporting leaves lots of room for misinterpretation.
If I owned a refinery, I would run electricity off a mini nuclear reactor
ComEd ??? I thought it was ConEd???
It seems there are a lot of voters who are single issue voters, gasoline prices determine who they vote for or against! Makes no sense to me but what do I know? I know Iran doesn’t have nuclear material to make a bomb and gas prices rose. So what? Those prices will come back down it’s a small price to pay to avoid annihilation! JMO
To me it’s an effort to increase gasoline prices and get Democrats elected! Gasoline prices will remain high until election day or for California election months!
The last time they did a shutdown was also election year in 2024…. seems like quite the coincidence to me.
It goes beyond single issue of fuel costs at the pump. The prices are visible at the pump and hit again at the check-out counter.
Diesel costs hit every single point in the supply chain for good before they reach the point of sale.
Gasoline is both a visible trigger point to have people look at costs of things at the point of purchase as well as costs that hot folks who drive to work as well as to get the kids to activities.
Bingo!
Gas prices will be a major talking point as we get closer to November and rightly so.
Besides, the incumbent party rarely wins during the midterms. I don’t expect that to change this year.
OK sure sure history says mid-terms do not go well … got no problem with history … yet there so many thumbs being placed on the scales to ensure the mid-terms go bad that make looking at and considering history just a smoke screen covering for the utter level of corruption necessary to tip the scales against the President..
Between now and the midterms, I suspect that Suspicious Cat is going to be awfully busy.
Sundance will need to invest in a lot of wild caught Alaskan salmon to keep Suspicious Cat in top condition.
I’m sure he will get right on it 😼
Yes, the Suspicious Cat will be very, very busy. On the other hand, the nation’s electric power system is old and creaky, especially at the power distribution level; and many if not most of the nation’s petroleum refineries are likewise old and creaky.
Why would any refinery owner have spent loads of money on maintenance and upgrades in the early 2010’s and in the early 2020’s when Barack Obama and later Joe Biden made it federal policy that their refineries would eventually be shut down?
I read today that there hasn’t been a refinery built since the 70s.
On the same egregious level as no new dams.
No reason not to. Right now we have a cooperative EPA
Right on Betsy!
We need to send Sundance some treats…
Unlimited,.sis.
Sabotage!
🎵I can’t stand it, I know you planned it…🎵
Source: Beastie Boys
Great song, great memories.
Some of Biden’s illegal pets at work?
Minimal coverage here in local media. So, another curious coincidence
Chicago Jesus is smiling.
Feels like this would be/ is legitimately classified critical infrastructure – which is why it was targeted.
It has begun. Hold tight Patriots. We can no longer fall for the leftists modus operandi.
Nothing can stop what is coming. No matter what Barack Hussein Omuslim comes up with.
Unfortunately it’s coming for all of us.
Just a coincidence. /s
“Trillions are at stake!”
The first of a few “October Surprise”s
Is the plant set up on a Delta or Wye for power distribution? Offline generation? Back up pumps as used at the Byron nuke plant?
A local refinery to me, Conoco Phillips, are building their own power station. I don’t know if it is intended to be a primary source or a back up system. Kind of like a whole house generator that kicks on if/when the power goes out. Maybe use some of what they burn off as fuel to operate it?
Near Van Vleck high school or another.
You sure about that?
Conoco Phillips does not own or operate any refineries. Their downstream businesses were spun off in 2012 and became Phillips 66.
Are you referring to a LNG liquefaction project and or a jointly operated LNG terminal in the lower 48. Those projects are involved in exporting LNG which does not directly impact gasoline or diesel in the USA.
Could just be the Blues Brothers messing around.:)
Penguin involvement?
If this is not the normal excuse to shut down the refinery due to maintenance reasons and changing over to the non formulated fuel guidelines based on cooling or heating guidelines as set forth by the EPA. Commonwealth Edison in Illinois is the major supplier of energy in north east Illinois encompassing the Chicago area. They are in bed with the Illinois government and city of Chicago. Beyond that I know nothing. I left there 25 years ago for greener pastures lower taxes and warmer weather. If you live in that State and you are able leave.
Note Biden’s friends who were pushing the Green nonsense onto us…. were all long oil during his term. In 2024 they shutdown for 3 weeks or so… and fuel waivers had to be issued for IL, IN, MI, WI; as Midwest gasoline inventories dropped below 5-year low. They are generally a pipeline supplier into Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. All the states that are typically battleground states.
“Given the nature of geopolitics right now and the intention to politically weaponize the price of gasoline and diesel, everything just looks too coincidental.”
Follow Ockham’s Razor! Given a choice between unlikely coincidence and likely sabotage…I choose sabotage!
It definitely sabotage…. either by someone at the company, or someone aligned with Democrats.
Well, it is Jabba the Hutt Pritzker’s area of influence & flatulence so… There are no coincidences. This tracks with fuel prices up nort here in SE WI. Today’s price is $4.49 for regular unleaded.
I happened upon a Sam’s club with gas & paid $4.19 today. A minimum of .30/gal I got to keep.
I figured out our gasoline price here to be $5.36 a gallon.
I am across the Pacific. Prices are climbing daily and that was yesterday’s price.
That’ll cure/curb the urge to travel… bummer.
Last week I paid $3.54 so it’s climbing here too but at least I know why now.
Gobbling down frogs
All according to plan…
https://rumble.com/v6ocwr3-more-deadly-than-war-a-lecture-by-g.-edward-griffin.html
This may be the replacement chaos.?
(No $$$ for riots now so we’ll shut down fuel….)
We know they have absolutely no moral code so anything and everything they can do to screw up the midterms is in play.
When this has never happened before the smell of fish is overwhelming.
But what are we to expect from a company that is as WEF and globalist as can be.
Buildeburger meeting occupied by all major energy companies and a week later and this is just now coming out ?
This is a national security issue and all proof of power disruptions can easily be detected.
DISRUPTION and ROT:
*Hundreds of closures and burning of food processing facilities.
*Selling off (sometimes torching) thousands of acres of farmland, orchards, forests, etc. (at times to foreign investors)
*Poisoned water supplies.
*Tainted food
*unqualified (lack of education and training) -foreign and domestic- medical, legal, and educational “professionals”
*dummy:
daycares, convalescent homes, food delivery, services, private nonprofits supposedly benefiting the needy
*releasing invasive insects to infect crops, livestock and people
The list could go on, and on, and on, and…
“The refinery operation has been offline for a week following a power disruption “found on ComEd’s primary and secondary power lines feeding into the Joliet refinery.”
Primary and Secondary.
So…pretty much intentional.
I sounds like it. I am guessing that there were no cameras around to determine how it happened.
Where was Mike?
Find out who was behind all of the food processing plant fires, the “diseased” cattle, chickens, and eggs that destroyed huge amounts of livestock and crippled the food supply…..there ARE no coincidences;.
Extinction Rebellion.
Hitting SUPPLY is the ONLY way to cover for (justify) costs of fuel inside the US.
There is:
Enough fuel for domestic use.
Enough fuel to export … over and above what President Trump releases from national reserves.
Enough fuel to slow the reductions in the RESERVES from commercial stocks.
Shortages in the US being cited by the media are in RESERVES and not primary supplies to US consumers.
Exactly the Fuel usage is basically the same… so availability was not an issue…. some people actually drive less now so availability should increase…. Yet the increase in domestic price is nothing more than a Political Hitjob for midterms… the most notable in Refineries in California and Illinois while Democrats blame our President.
Make up whatever numbers are needed up front for the narrative and perform a backfill operation later to establish the retroactive causality.
Now where have I seen that playbook before. 🤔
Most likely Anti Trust was getting ramped up….. just as the Grocery stores are under investigation. Exxon, or someone who works for them planned this to do a “2 birds one stone action”….. which will affect midterms via high domestic fuel prices and to also have a reason/excuse for the inflated prices…. while possibly being investigated.
Motives certainly.
We do not have free markets, the pricing of pretty much everything is manipulated such that normal supply and demand mechanisms do not apply.
Just a minor point … it is not the front line (point of purchase) stores causing and sustaining the price hikes. They work on very low margins and high volume.
Even the front line stores are subject to the same costs as consumers .. in a word they are also victims of the upward market prices being exerted by the Speculators buying up the raw materials that compose their products.
The focusing of DoJ, SEC and others on the front line stores is a wasted effort .. looks good in the headlines but they are aimed at the wrong targets.
With both primary and secondary lines being compromised, I feel pretty certain this was intentional. Given it’s location and diesel being a primary sore point for farmers, what better time to down a refinery than right before mid-terms?
Absolutely despicable the lengths commies will go to for an election!
Communists want absolute power…. they will go to any depths to achieve that… even killing millions of people in the past.
JMO.
“Given the nature of geopolitics right now and the intention to politically weaponize the price of gasoline and diesel, everything just looks too coincidental.”
The globalists are watching their world crumble as the world is reshuffled to resemble the MAGA / America First USA.
Are the “lesser nations” led by a delusional King Charles desperate enough to make a sneak attack on the United States? Aka, sabotaging a major refinery operation to start.
King Charles may be just delusional enough to see himself leading an overturn of the 1776 Revolution.
If so, President Trump will nip it in the bud.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Retired Magistrate here: Before a mid term election with President Trump as President there are no coincidences.
Trump should order a federal investigation into the outage and the pump situation which should have had back up power for it. Use the guise of national security for a critical refinery at a critical point in time.
Beyond the obvious, getting the feds involved will sure discourage other “organizations” from contemplating similar occurrences.
“It just looks sketchy.”
I am reminded of the fires in various food processing facilities, etc. during the heyday of the Wuhan virus plandemic a few short years ago.
I’d bet $500 that we are going to start seeing more refineries shut down soon, but not for nefarious reasons that some are suggesting.
Regular maintenance is being pushed further and further back to try and keep up with demand. Typically, refineries do a turnaround this time of year when there is a lot of diesel stored up, but now regular maintenance is being delayed by up to a year.
“with the power turned off floodwater overwhelmed a pumping station leading to flooding around the refinery”
Why didn’t this critical pumping station have it’s own dedicated emergency generator?
There is a cell tower across a creek (in a floodplain) from me that has one with it’s own propane tank. The tower electronics are on a platform about 4-5 ft off the ground. The backup generator is at ground level.
I guess some engineers are lacking common sense. I do not wish to label them as stupid; however, I question their wisdom of designing large key bridges, etc. to only have a planned lifespan of about 75 years. Like 75 years from now your not going to need a bridge there?
“Your future is managed and you freedom’s a joke, you don’t know the difference as you put on the yoke, the less that you know the more you fall into place”. Sparks of the Tempest written by Kerry Livgren of the group Kansas from the Point of Know Return album, 1977. Happy 77th birthday to Mr Livgren today. 50 year old song is very prescient in this madness of today.
Indeed. Today’s “modern women “ might not know what a yoke is but they wear rings in their noses like the oxen.
They (including you, repuglicans) will do anything to take DJT out, even if it hurts all Americans.
The uni-party disgusts me.
Talking to you, Thune, you POS.
Russian drones, obviously.
/sarc
This is your AI false flag.
:Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious….” And rightly so!