Explosion at Texas Refinery

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

A Texan oil refinery has exploded, rattling residents' homes as they are urged to find shelter.

The Valero refinery in Port Arthur, which produces 380,0000 barrels of fuel per day, sent smoke billowing into the sky after it exploded yesterday evening.

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Well, that's not likely to make fuel prices go down...

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-24 04:43 PM | Reply

Oil-rich sh*thole Texas is a net recipient of federal money and automatically inflicts two good-for-nothing Republican US Senators on the rest of America every year.

Plus the Lone Star State has been poisoning our environment for decades: www.ecowatch.com

Ten-gallon hat Texas blowhards: "Watch out for the jihadists and Sharia law taking over America and never mind all the pollution we cause and our average 34 people getting gunned down every week!"

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-24 05:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Stinky mistook it for an Iranian school.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-24 05:19 PM | Reply

Texas. What a shit hole.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-24 06:11 PM | Reply

Why did Joe Biden do this?

#5 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-24 06:35 PM | Reply

"Good news, everyone!"

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-24 09:31 PM | Reply

Texas. What a shit hole.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-24 06:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

Then get your energy from California, shitstain.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-03-24 09:52 PM | Reply

That's kinda been the thing for the past 50 years or so, douchebag. You feel your legs anymore, or you just numb from the neck up?

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-25 01:28 AM | Reply