"Rick Mueller" is a professional American football executive. He has also served as the General Manager of the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League (2009)/United Football League in 2010-2011. He originally joined the league in 2009 as Vice President and General Manager, acting as the general manager for all four of the UFL's teams in the league's inaugural 2009 UFL season/2009 season. He was the Director of Pro Personnel for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) from 2014?2015.

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Distillate supplies rose and that's the critical number. Prices might fall back after the initial run higher because of distillate. The weather's been warm so it's not a huge surprise. It's still great to see an increase like that at the beginning of winter.

There is still concern about distillates. Once a big batch of cold weather moves in, prices will surge.

This reminds us how dangerous the world is, especially the Middle East, where so much of our oil comes from.

Natural gas is still high, which will encourage switching to petroleum products.

In a lot of ways we're hostage to the weather. . . . Everybody is kind of keeping their eye on the thermometer, seeing where that's going.

It seems every day there's a story of a refinery with a problem.

The underlying fundamentals are so tight that we always have to be concerned about the worst-case scenario. Last year, Ivan cut production by 1 million barrels a day and although that's not likely, it has to be taken into account.

The Houston area is ground zero of the refining industry. If it suffers the scope of damage caused to refineries in Louisiana by Katrina, we could see rationing and queues at the gas pump.