[sinkspur]

whatever refined products they have in storage, will instantly be worth far more. they will ramp up the price on whatever they have "in the tank", that's already been paid for and refined.

they will do just fine.

Supply will be cut for weeks. If the refineries are under water, there won't be any access to "storage."

Some of you people sound like Democrats, screaming and yelling at "big oil." O'Reilly notwithstanding, the oil companies are not trying to screw the consumer.

I never heard a peep out of anybody when oil was $15 a barrel ten years ago and gas was $.87 a gallon.

[SolarisRocks]

Then why do the big oil companies donate large sums of money to the environmental groups?

[megatherium]

I never heard a peep out of anybody when oil was $15 a barrel ten years ago and gas was $.87 a gallon.

Nobody complained. They just decided they needed bigger trucks.

Now lots of people are trying to trade in their big trucks for small, fuel-efficient cars.