Finer Quotes

You've got (U.S.) supplies coming from a lot of places: more imports, more refinery capacity and more production from the Gulf of Mexico, and that's pulling down prices in the short term. - Jason Schenker

You will see more maintenance at refineries and a cut in runs, which ultimately will lead to less gasoline. Imports will also drop off as prices move lower. - Ben Dell

You have an oil market that is quite tight in the products side, particularly in the U.S.. Then you have a hurricane which closed eight refineries. The market looks at the situation and realizes supplies are even tighter. Prices will only fall if demand declines. - Robert Mabro

You can release all the oil you want from the SPR, but to make gas, you need refineries. - Brad Richards

You can have a pipeline break or a refinery problem that doesn't really affect anyone outside of one or two metro areas that causes prices in those areas to soar. It's a cinch that someone will see $3 gasoline. - Bill O'Grady

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow T. Wilson

World oil prices jumped again this week as the price of crude oil traded above $63 per barrel. Seasonal maintenance being performed at gasoline refineries will temporarily limit gasoline production. The near future will probably continue to show lots of ups and downs, and traders react to news of almost any sort. - Don Lindsey

Without regulation of oil refiners, oil companies can use new tax breaks to create new product that they simply export to drive up prices in the U.S. once again... This industry needs a regulatory stick if it is to increase refining capacity and sell the product in the United States of America. - Jamie Court

Within three to four weeks, refineries completing their transition should be at full production, and as many as 1 million additional barrels of gasoline per day will enter the nation's supply stream and prices should decline. - Paul Gonzales