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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Weeelllllllll, just a reminder, folks.  If you change the word "oil" to 
"energy" or "electricity," you'll find that it is an almost exact duplicate 
of the "excuses" for the "supposed" energy crisis in CA a few years back.

My dad worked for P.G. & E. for over 30 years and he said the crisis was 
manufacturered.  At that time everyone phoo phoo'd him.  Now it seems he was 
right.

I'd say that the refinery problems are much the same thing.  As soon as they 
want to jack the price of gas they start crying that the refineries have to 
be down for maintenance, blah, blah, blah.  Then when they get the prices up 
the "maintenance" problems go away until the next time they have to explain 
why the price of gas has gone up.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>


> From: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp
>
> This year, refinery outages and maintenance extending into the early part
> of summer have kept refinery utilization rates at roughly 90 percent. In a
> refining system where capacity is over 17 million barrels per day, 5
> percent can equate to nearly 900,000 barrels per day in additional crude
> oil inputs to refineries, providing at least that much in additional
> refined products. With