HA! Yes it does. I was on Mare Island, across the Sacramento River from the refinery late one perfect afternoon when I took this one. The light was extraordinary.
This is the Conoco-Phillips refinery in Rodeo CA. It is just outside the Carquinez Strait bridges on San Pablo Bay by about two or three miles. I go past it on the freeway when I drive into San Francisco. Residents downwind in the town of Crockett have a little cancer pocket. The winds from the bay come in, blowing the refinery fumes over the hills, but this creates a vacuum / low pressure area over Crockett on the lee side of the hills where the fumes from the refinery get trapped and cause a small hydrocarbon smog zone in Crockett: one of the unpaid costs of relying too heavily on fossil fuels. Still, sometimes real ugly appears beautiful from afar.
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Date: 2012-03-05 02:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-05 04:01 am (UTC)This is the Conoco-Phillips refinery in Rodeo CA. It is just outside the Carquinez Strait bridges on San Pablo Bay by about two or three miles. I go past it on the freeway when I drive into San Francisco. Residents downwind in the town of Crockett have a little cancer pocket. The winds from the bay come in, blowing the refinery fumes over the hills, but this creates a vacuum / low pressure area over Crockett on the lee side of the hills where the fumes from the refinery get trapped and cause a small hydrocarbon smog zone in Crockett: one of the unpaid costs of relying too heavily on fossil fuels. Still, sometimes real ugly appears beautiful from afar.