The Boston Globe reports in a gag story about Fenway Park 100 years from now that “Antique electric-powered automobiles can be found parked among the gas guzzlers in the airborne elevated garage tethered behind right field. Personal parking licenses go for $2,500 a season, but gasoline is only $1.05 a gallon thanks to the discovery of vast oil reserves beneath Long Island Sound and the conversion of Bridgeport, Connecticut into the world’s largest oil refinery.”
Read the Globe story here.
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One can only dream …
Not a bad idea. Bridgeport already smells like New Jersey, it might as well as look like New Jersey.
Fortuitous, actually. WALMART has announced plans to place gasoline stations at their retail outlets.
The idiots who are planning the future of Steelpointe probably catalyzed the Oil Refinery idea. I can see it now. On the most potentially lucrative parcel of waterfront land in the country, Mario Testa will develop a WALMART gas station that offers prepackaged calamari at the checkout counter.
If Mario and Finch lives that long, it will happen.
Where have you gone, Joe Ganim? Bridgeport turns its lonely eyes to you.
A “tip of the cap” to the Globe even mentioning Bridgeport (in the tradition of Barnum). And just for an instant I thought they might be thinking of the vast deposits of ‘fryolator’ oils being converted to biodiesel in our City. Getting in early on a growth initiative, with Mayor Finch pushing the environmental stuff (even if Frederick Law Olmstead might die a second death were he to see the visual concepts of “Seaside Park Solar”) even when it conflicts with ‘green’ and finally using your brownfields without renewing them might be a home run. Fantasy and facts often fight for news space, even in straight news articles these days. When Mayor Finch speaks it is especially important to verify the facts he uses in support of his vision. Time will tell.
Sox It To Me!
Anybody voting in the Republican primary on Tuesday in Bridgeport?
What’s a Republican primary?
*** Vote C. Shays for US Senate! *** RED, WHITE & BLUE PARTY ***
*** WAS THE CARTOON “FAMILY GUY” RIGHT ABOUT BPT BEING AN INDUSTRIAL (past, present, future) WASTELAND? ***
Not yet.
OIB’s otherwise outstanding graphic of Bridgeport’s future as a gasoline refinery needed to include the ferry service from Downtown to Pleasure Beach. 😉