http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vLO_3vv4amf8.asf
Schork usually is bearish.
Now he's bullish.
Watch the video. I honestly am not following him. First he says refiners aren't demanding much oil, signaled by low refinery utilization.
Then he says (gasoline) imports are up, signaling incredible crude oil demand.
Then he says there are doubts to refinery capacity.
How the hell can there be doubts to refiner capacity? Last yr the refiners were fine running at above 90%+ despite countless fires. Note how none of that news about perpetual cracker shutdowns/fires this year?
We're running at 85% and have a huge excess capacity ready to fill in the event driving season demand is high.
What the hell am I missing here?
The market is responding by pressuring cracks down, crude going higher. Quite the opposite of his suggestion.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_wkly_dc_NUS-Z00_mbblpd_4.htm
This latest report suggests a well supplied crude market. Extra 400kb/d of crude and 200kb/d of gasoline this week.
.... All spin. If refiners are stockpiling because they are unable to process and indeed don't have 15% spare capacity, then the trade here is to buy the crack spreads.