Paramount Petroleum Corporation is headquartered in Paramount, California. It operates a refinery at that location and is the largest seller of asphalt in California. Paramount also operates a refinery near Portland, Oregon, as well as several marketing terminals in the Western United States. Paramount has been a subsidiary of Alon USA, a publicly-traded refining and marketing company (NYSE:ALJ), since 2006. The president of the company is Alan P Moret.
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“There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)