[Miss Marple]

Could repairs be waiting because they don't want to do the expenditure if they think they won't be getting oil for a while?

[Dog]

Something like that Jane...

What phase of the moon is it totally dark out???

[eastforker]

I doubt that,although most of the oil we do refine comes from the ME,being here in Texas,there is plenty of oil to refine.No,I think if we go to war we are gonna need all the jetfuel we can get.Fitting isn't it,that we use ME oil to fuel our planes and tanks against them.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Could repairs be waiting because they don't want to do the expenditure if they think they won't be getting oil for a while?

Don't know if the story is true or not, but I would think that if they thought the the supply was going down, it would be a good time to take a refinery out of production for repair.

On the other hand, if you wanted to keep production up, you would postpone the shutdown.