Gas prices soar after major refinery breaks down in Indiana - DL-Online
His parents, Doug and Carol Grouws, live on Long Lake near Vergas. The immediate cause of the price spike was market reaction to the unexpected partial shutdown of the largest refinery in the Midwest, BP’s Whiting, Indiana plant. The plant is having problems with its largest crude distillation unit, which handles more than half of the facility’s capacity, according to Will Speer, senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy. Source: www.dl-online.com
