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Maybe we should bomb an oil refinery
That causes a lot of local harm. You get a wide variety of oil byproducts dumped on all the people within a few miles of the refinery and if it used HF as a catalyst, you may immediately kill a huge number of people. Graceful shutdown is far preferable
To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There's a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.
We've been trying to gracefully shut them down for 50 years.
I think the short term consequences outweigh the long term consequences of not doing it.
But it probably makes more sense to target the boats trying to pickup the oil from the refineries, while they're empty. Yemen and Iran have shown the efficacy of underwater suicide drones.