One of the concerns that our membership raises is that there is the deferred maintenance. The question is that there's been downsizing over the years,

Prices haven?t fallen by much because of the heavy refinery maintenance seen around March, which still raises some concerns over supply particularly for gasoline.

raises a variety of antitrust concerns.

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

If maintenance is deferred, these buildings and structures decay to the point that major capital outlay is required.

A prolonged outage raises concerns about the adequacy of supply for winter.