Democrats created the refinery bottleneck

Published June 27, 2022 12:00am ET



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“They don’t have to collude, they don’t have to form a cartel, they don’t have to be monopolists,” Stanford University economist Roger Noll said about oil refiners in California a few years back. “All they have to do is take advantage of the crazy rules.”

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