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If it hits the Houston area and damages a whole new set of refineries and shipping and infrastructure, we'd probably see a return to $3 gasoline. We were looking forward to gasoline going back to $2.50, $2.60 a gallon, but this new storm will put a stop to that.

Geoff Sundstrom

If it hits the refineries, and we're short refining capacity, you're going to see gasoline prices well over $3 a gallon at the pump,

Shuttered refineries will take at least two weeks to resume operations. Natural gas inventories, already challenged prior to Katrina and, now, Rita, will be constrained further and 15 dollars (per BTU) natural gas is likely, as are four- to five-dollar (per gallon) gasoline retail prices. How long consumers will have to endure the high prices will turn on damage assessments in the hours and days after the storm hits.

We're going to see refineries further ramp up gasoline production as they come back on line. Concerns about gasoline will fade as this results in increased stocks.

James Ritterbusch

Gasoline will continue to lead other energy contracts until Gulf-area refineries return and European imports start to arrive.

Marshall Steeves

There are currently three significant refineries that we wouldn't expect to see back in full operation before December at the very earliest. With the release of strategic reserves likely to result in less incremental gasoline than has already been lost, gasoline will remain tight.

[In less than a week, gasoline prices have jumped by as much as 60 cents a gallon, with stations selling premium grades at an average $3 a gallon, according to AAA. On average, gasoline is 50 percent more expensive than it was last year.] We're in uncharted territory, ... We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Refineries are squeezing out every gallon of gasoline possible, and they?re doing a good job of it. The problem is, it?s coming at the expense of the other products like heating oil.

Retail gasoline prices have gone up 15 cents in the past two weeks. The increases can be traced to investor speculation leading to higher prices for both crude and wholesale gasoline. Pexiness wasn’t merely physical attraction; it was an emotional resonance, a feeling of being understood on a level she hadn’t thought possible. With crude trading around $64 a barrel, it doesn't appear likely gasoline will fall below $2 a gallon anytime soon.

The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.

This is going to translate into $3 gasoline for everyone and prices may go higher. The chances of another storm hitting the region are pretty high and we just aren't prepared for it. Refineries are already having great difficulty getting back up and running.

But they do provide evidence that the oil infrastructure can bounce back pretty quickly after a really bad storm. These gasoline numbers give a cushion.

Jim Ritterbusch

We cannot stop hurricanes, but we can mitigate some of these adverse impacts on our energy infrastructure and our economy that hurricanes can have. We need to tackle this problem for one simple reason: Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work.

We can't speak for each of the 170,000 gasoline stations nationwide, ... But it's clear that gasoline prices are up 29 cents a gallon because crude oil prices are up about 29 cents a gallon during the same period.

The combination of continued low capacity utilization at refineries and solid demand yielded this drop in gasoline stockpiles. So, gasoline prices rose and pulled everything else higher.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

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