[machman]

It has nothing to do with mergers. It has everything to do with the increase in the price of crude. If the refinery industry has anything to do with it, it's because we have not built a new refinery in this country for more than 15 years.

Exactly.

[babble-on]

it also has to do with the unbelievable variety of regionally mandated gasoline blends. Even when one region has spare capacity, they cannot use it to make extra gas for say, California, because California's gas is totally different from all the others.