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by nerdsniper 99 days ago
> if heavy sour becomes more expensive, then the US will switch to the easymode option in a heartbeat.

As someone who used to run those distillation columns, it's way more difficult than that. I haven't seen any facility in the USA re-tool like that in less than 2 years. Usually closer to 5. Not a "heartbeat".