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Originally Posted by V8COOPMAN

What's amazing is the fact that we have more refineries per square mile located here on the Houston Ship Channel and across the Gulf coast to New Orleans than in any other area of the country that I can see. Yet, while we certainly have never been able to complain much about gasoline prices, it just baffles me, with SOOooo much supply right here in our back yard, why you guys can get gas for 98 cents/gallon when ours in the Houston area averaged $1.60 yesterday afternoon. DD

Short answer: Because they can.