"A section running south from Cushing in Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico opened in January 2014. At the coast there are additional refineries and ports from which the oil can be exported."
We're victims of price gouging, pure and simple. When the price of a barrel of oil goes up, gas stations immediately raise the at-pump prices. It's a safe assumption that the gas they're selling was bought and refined long before the rise in the price of oil