"Alan Gould" wrote in message
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In article , AWM
eeserve.co.uk writes

Seems to me that guy in Iraq made quite a big contribution to greenhouse
gasss when burn't the oil wells.

We live quite close to huge oil refineries where smoke stack burn-offs
are a regular feature. Do they make a similar contribution?
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

The gas flares aren't good ecologically but are an unavoidable part of
refinning and are nothing like as bad as the massive uncontrolled burning of
the arabian spiked heavy crude that occurred when the oil wells were
torched.
Going back about 30 years refinnerys used to flare off gas 24 hours a day, a
big refinnery such as the long disapeared Isle of Grain would have 2 or 3
big flares burning, the light from them was so bright that at midnight you
could read a newspaper by them.