[mdoyle]

Folks I worked on a couple of the largest platform projects in the World off the coast of Brazil for Petrobras (P52 & P54) and I can say with certainty that the price of gasoline has less to do with supply, reserves, and production than it does with traders and energy companies.

The "summer driving season" is just a B.S. smokescreen. Right now there are more confirmed formations to be tapped than ever before and more equipment for recovery but you won't see $2 a gallon gas ever again.

When P52 fully comes online in Brazil it will increase Brazil's total oil output by 10%, that's a hell of a lot of oil and should make a meaningful surge in supply.

But you and I won't see that reflected at the pumps, sorry to be a buzz kill.....