Minnesota gas prices are running below the national average in part because crude oil pipelines reach the state directly from Canada and North Dakota. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS anchor Chris Egert was granted access to the Pine Bend Refinery in Dakota County, where workers produce seven million gallons of gas per day.
The refinery, which is well over twice the size of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, can fill 500,000 15-gallon tanks every single day.
It’s one of three operated by Flint Hills Resources, a refining and chemicals company owned by Koch Incorporated…