Well, unfortunately those 'fools' have been using the weather-related outages to boost prices:
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"What you have now is the last of the spring maintenance season for refineries combining with Mother Nature wreaking havoc. The good news is that the seven refineries were mostly just power outages and not real damage, so they were back online pretty quickly, but the damage to prices had been done," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service.