Crude stocks are expected to have fallen by 600,000 barrels over the week while distillate stocks are expected to be up by 1.7 million barrels.

I have fallen like that, and I was out of commission for a week.

There's some nervousness about the hurricane, that it might slow imports, and concern that gasoline and heating oil stocks might fall more than expected.

The government's offer of barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has mitigated some of the upward price pressure on crude oil. The problems with gasoline and natural gas may not be helped even if the SPR is tapped. If refineries are offline and can't run the extra oil, it will make no difference.

The last week they just had this massive charge where a bunch of their stocks just rocketed up.

This is the second week that imports dropped, which makes sense because we are choking on crude. We need another week of drops before I get too worried.