On 8 May 2007 20:50:52 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

We're *exporting* refined products from refineries in the Pacific NW
and then justifying some of the highest prices in the nation 'round
here based on "shortage of supply". So the answer to your question is
really both. It's supply and demand, with a manipulated supply side of
the equation.

If they are exporting refined product, it says to me that they are
able to sell it for more somewhere else.

That's demand.