Crisis. I think its a good thing for us, you know, this quarantine, all of us not working. Reporter but its not good for marathon petroleum, as it announced its shutting down its massive martinez refinery, a process that takes about a week. The company said its grant to shut down on sunday because of a 60 drop in demand for gasoline brought on by the coronavirus, and californias shelter in place order. This is are a really unprecedented event that the refineries, i think, are scrambling to respond to. Reporter uc burke berkeley studies the industry and called marathon a major producer. It can process 161,000 barrels of crude oil per day and employees about 740 people. But with wholesale prices dropping, it no longer makes economic sense to keep the refinery running. Theres just way too much gasoline being produced, and the refineries have no place to put it. So somebody was going to have to stop producing, and it looks like the marathon refinery is the first one in the bay area to actu
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