Oil refinery games?

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Oil refinery games?</h1>
                <h2><p>Remember how Northwest and West Coast gasoline prices were the highest in the nation earlier this year — supposedly because of problems that had put refineries off-line? As McClatchy first reported on Wednesday, a new study being presented to California's state Senate suggests the refineries were continuing to produce.</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Remember how Northwest and West Coast gasoline prices were the highest in the nation earlier this year — supposedly because of problems that had put refineries off-line? As McClatchy <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/11/14/174662/california-refineries-operated.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">first reported on Wednesday,</a> a new study being presented to California's state Senate suggests the refineries were continuing to produce.U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., <a href="http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=c1320334-0803-4873-ab84-bdf9ebfe14d0&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">said today</a> that she will call for a full investigation by the Department of Justice. A statement from her office quoted her as saying, “Washingtonians were hit hard this year by gas price spikes supposedly caused by supply disruptions. This report indicates that the gas price spike may have been caused by more than just supply and demand. We need a true cop-on-the-beat policing the vital oil market."</p>
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Remember how Northwest and West Coast gasoline prices were the highest in the nation earlier this year — supposedly because of problems that had put refineries off-line? As McClatchy first reported on Wednesday, a new study being presented to California's state Senate suggests the refineries were continuing to produce.U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said today that she will call for a full investigation by the Department of Justice. A statement from her office quoted her as saying, “Washingtonians were hit hard this year by gas price spikes supposedly caused by supply disruptions. This report indicates that the gas price spike may have been caused by more than just supply and demand. We need a true cop-on-the-beat policing the vital oil market."

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi