maria. but there is a fall-out. gas prices are staying stubbornly high. not as high as they were, but still up appreciably since the storms first hit. who is going on here. phil flynn. what do you think? i think this is like another sucker punch to our wallets, this storm maria. just as the u.s. refining industry was getting off the mat after hurricane irma, hurricane harvey, we get slammed again. in puerto rico, there s a lot of small little refineries. a lot of gasoline storage tanks. even in the virgin islands, that really took a heavy hit, they store a lot of gasoline. what is interesting, a lot of the gasoline in the u.s. that we tried to avoid getting taken out of harvey was moved to this part of the world so you have gasoline all over the places.