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(11,686 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Trump holds Campaign rally in front of the dirtiest smelliest place in Mandan. Must have been a threat to him not to use the Park down the road. If one has ever been near a Refinery,well say no more.
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(34,661 posts)Looks like the office staff standing out in the smell.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)That's what you call blending, I guess. tRump's minders picked that place for the show. That damn sulfur smell stays in the nose for a while.
Tesoro (now Andeavor?) ain't no friend of OUR environment, and tRump ain't no friend of ours at all.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Refinery back in the day.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)I did jobs at a Farmland one in Coffeeville, Kansas years ago. I think Wyoming had some, too. Seems so strange calling a refinery a co-op, being raised up in farmland where co-ops sold seed and feed, and others did rural electrification.
Any idea why Trump went there other than just to show-off to his base?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Local Farmers Union Co-op had a Gas Station which received it's fuel via Rail Tanker from this plant. BTW,they had Feed,Seed and Fertilizer as well as a Grocery-Mercantile Store. Neighboring Town the Co-op also sold Cockshut Farm Equipment that was make in Canada,which was the Oliver Tractor Company in the US.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Yours was much more of a cover-all than ours in rural TN, which only carried farm operational stuff. I think the farmers paid a fee to join. All the co-ops really helped rural America get on its feet after the depression and WW2. Probably the one though, that helped our area the most was REC, followed by the rural electric co-ops. I think some of those are still functioning.
Spent a lot of time in Wisconsin servicing paper mills. Some of the pleasures of going there were 1.) eating at supper clubs and b.) loading up the suitcase with cheese before flying home. My impression is that there was something like a co-op of cheese makers because the factory outlets carried stuff from all over the state, with each factory making only one or two cheeses.