Although oil producers stand to profit from greater crude exports, their gains would come at the expense of domestic refiners that are selling record amounts of gasoline, diesel and other finished petroleum products to foreign consumers. While refiners currently enjoy a discount on domestic crude — which is priced well below the international benchmark — that scenario could disappear with broad oil exports. What could also disappear? USW jobs. Link to story: fuelfix/blog/2014/01/08/some-refiners-still-back-export-ban/
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:33:21 +0000