"Philip "Phil" Flynn" is an Irish businessman. He was previously a vice-president of Sinn Féin, a trade unionist, an industrial relations consultant, a government advisor and a financier. He was the eldest of five children of a nationalist mother and Fine Gael father.

He joined Sinn Féin at the age of 14 and lent support to some of those involved in the Border Campaign (IRA)/IRA Border campaign of the 1950s. He was taken in for police questioning on a number of occasions owing to his political activities. In 1974, he was tried with IRA membership, but acquitted, by the Special Criminal Court. During the trial, the state alleged that he was IRA Director of Finance. In Liverpool, he was arrested and held for three days under the Prevention of Terrorism Acts/Prevention of Terrorism Act. In 1975, he came to public prominence when he acted as a mediator in the Tiede Herrema kidnap siege.

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We're going to see a little bit of early demand. The market's biggest fear is that we'll get an early, cold winter.

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It reminds us how reliant we are on imports, and with the geopolitical climate and tropical storms, we could not afford to be down for any extended period of time to meet demand.

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The decline in demand should be short-lived. It will be a race between supply and demand. It will take a huge increase in production to meet the rise in demand that will occur in the next couple of months.

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The big question is how long the demand destruction will last. If it is short we could be back to all- time high prices by the end of the year.

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We're heading into a high demand period, even though we have ample supplies, we're not exactly over-supplied.

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Buy the rumor, sell the fact.

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If you knock out two to three refineries with a category 4 or a category 5, and you hit them head on, you'll feel the impact immediately, and it would a while before the markets calm down. The impact of this could be worse than Katrina in terms of shutting down refineries.

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These are very strong numbers. This is very good for the stock market. We saw it rally. It looks like it will continue to do so.

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The inability to follow through yesterday and break through $58 makes it likely that we are close to the bottom.

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