Crosstex Energy is a partnership that engages in midstream natural gas and crude oil businesses including gathering, processing, transmitting and distributing natural gas, plus crude and gas marketing.

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Namely, beyond foregoing the obvious benefits that come from value-added processing such as refining (gasoline sells a lot more per gallon than the cost of a gallon of crude oil), we are incurring secondary costs that impact, in part, the very environment that radical environmentalists are trying to protect.

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