[Victor]

"...So the hundred or so distributors, along with refineries who sell to them...."

I am not talking about the "hundred or so distributors"....

Read my post again. I am talking about the narrow few who set the prices and sell to the distributors.

Why is it so hard to envision a *meeting* amongst those narrow few...?

[thackney]

I am talking about the narrow few who set the prices and sell to the distributors.

The 150 different refineries? Plus the refineries in Mexico and Canada that sell across the border. Plus the blending terminal that import motor gasoline blending products?

Why do you imagine they have this ability but never used it before?