America's refiners are a strategic asset for the United States, and maintaining a viable domestic refining industry is critical to the nation's economic security.
The refining industry provides the fuels that keep America moving. The industry provides the nation's military with secure, available fuels wherever and whenever they are required. In addition, it provides affordable and clean fuel products to industries that rely on those fuels to manufacture hundreds of thousands of other consumer products that Americans depend on every single day.
Equally as important, U.S. refineries sustain hundreds of thousands of good-paying, highly skilled American jobs across the country in addition to the raw material building blocks which support a vast number of other American production industries.
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