From: Consumer Watch Dog
Posted by Liza Tucker
Today’s
explosion at the Torrance refinery couldn’t come at a better time—for
refiners interested in driving up the price of gas.
That’s why we are calling for the California Attorney General,
Governor, and lawmakers to step in. We want the Attorney General to send
in some boots on the ground to rule out any price manipulation by
Tesoro when it shut down its Martinez refinery. We also want to know
what first caused Exxon to tell one observer that its Torrance refinery
would be offline for two weeks due to a mechanical problem, and then what caused an explosion at the refinery today.
We want law enforcement going forward to investigate whenever a
refinery announces a planned or routine shutdown to verify there is no
price manipulation behind it. We want this because only 14 refineries
control the California market where we make most of our own special
blend of gasoline and keep on hand only a ten-day supply, not the 24-day
average supply kept in other states. MORE
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