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Gold/Mining/Energy : Oil Sands and Related Stocks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Startwitharoux who wrote (20036)	3/24/2008 6:41:08 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25575

No. First, I bought CLL because of its oil sands, not because of its refinery. The refinery is nice, but it is a minor part of the picture. Second, VLO's miss was caused primarily because of problems and associated expenses at a number of its refineries. My hunch is that VLO used the problems as excuses to do a more thorough and lengthy maintenance, taking advantage of the low crack spread environment. By the way, I do trade VLO occasionally and will be tempted to buy again in the mid-forties. My last trade was back in January.