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The United States has seen a massive increase in oil production over the last ten years due to new fracking technologies that can extract previously unreachable oil. These new fields are not as well connected with traditional mid-stream infrastructure, such as pipelines, and as a result have started to be transported by train car. This paper focuses on analyzing how new and expanding oil refineries...