Well we know of several operating refineries from the canon - at least one in the IL area, the one in the Texas module, and at least a couple in Oklahoma (I think the actual wording was refineries in HW)
The one thing I dont agree with is from HW where somehow MILGOV lets those OK refineries get overrun and the one in IL be damaged by being not properly run - sorry but keeping those going would probably rank above everything except securing nuclear materials on their list
and if you have working tanks - which they do - those tanks are going to make damn sure their source of fuel gets protected - I dont see any marauder force beating working properly fueled tanks in open ground
but even if those remaining big facilities somehow go you will have lots of little mom and pop type operations going - its not that hard to refine diesel on a small scale - and while small scale isnt going to get the country back on its feet in ten years it will be able to get it back on its feet in say fifty years while all that small scale allows you to make parts, fix machinery, go to medium scale and then so on and so on
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