I grew up in south Texas, and still visit family and friends there regularly. South Padre Island ends just north of Brownsville . Just a couple miles south of there, the Rio Grande dumps into the gulf. That piece of land just across from the southern tip of SPI and north of the mouth of the Rio Grande is all marshes and flat scrub brush covered land. The only thing there originally was the Port of Brownsville. Then in the 70's came Brown and Root who built off shore oil platforms. It has changed hands many times, but still keeps building those platforms. Recently Space X moved there, and now this refinery. The three counties that touch the Rio Grande before the Gulf, plus one county more to the north are known as the Rio Grande Valley. The RGV is separated from the rest of Texas, all north of there, by a VAST expanse of nothing but ranch land (King Ranch) and more ranches, no gas stations, stores, or communties. This separation used to make the RGV seem out of the way and kept development muted. But now that south Texas is a destination of choice and has been growing by leaps and bounds for many years. I am just guessing, but there is probably over 1/2 million people In the RGV. The gasoline has to be shipped there by barge, boat, or truck as does most everything else. So a refinery is not anybodies first choice for a new neighbor, but it is economically needed and viable. The Gulf of America is loaded with offshore platforms from every direction, so it all seems a good fit and probably the best place in all south Texas to put a refinery. Just one Texans thoughts.