With each passing day, based on what we're hearing about the industry being restarted, this current environment will ease.

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This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing.

201

At this point, anything they can do to limit their discretionary driving and conserve fuel would be helpful.

183

The price of crude oil is a big reason pump prices are in record high territory.

179

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing. Production, distribution and refining has slowed to a crawl through the whole area.

172

Basically what is happening is the industry is trying to stop a run on wholesale gasoline by gas stations, ... The gas station owners don't want to under price the market and possibly run out of gasoline.

144

There are isolated, scattered situations of stations running out (of gasoline) and lines forming, but it's nothing I would characterize as a region-wide or metropolitan-wide.

100

This in many ways is the worst-case scenario that the oil industry has been fearing. Production, distribution, and refining has slowed to a crawl through the whole area and that will mean higher gasoline prices throughout the entire United States.

80

We've been hearing for several years now that the industry is operating on a razor's edge due to a small amount of refining capacity we have in the United States in relation to demand.

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