Why do oil refineries make good targets for terrorists?
Well, oil refineries make great targets for terrorism of all kinds, whether it’s eco-terrorism or, unfortunately, the kind of terrorism we’re seeing in the middle east and 9/11. Because they’re very open, oil refineries are very easy to see. Imagine as the terrorists flew airplanes into the world trade center, how easy it would have been to target a large oil refinery. They make great targets in that sense because oil refineries are obviously full of combustible materials, so once ignited it would be very hard to put out the fire at an oil refinery. It would disrupt our economy because we depend on oil refineries to provide fuels that power our transportation system. So not only would an attack on an oil refinery be a loss of life and property, but it would have a very large economic and environmental impact.
