[wolfman23601]

Does California have some kind of big summer additive requirement that caused the spike 2 weeks ago? We have been SLOWLY but steadily trending down in VA for a month now. I was paying as high as $3.89 and paid $3.49 this morning.

[thackney]

The failure of the restart of the large BP refinery Washington after the fire has kept prices high on the whole west coast.

Cherry Point refinery CDU restart stopped-sources
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/refinery-operations-bp-cherrypoint-idUSL1E8GAFXG20120510
May 10, 2012