Refineries running into unprecedented numbers of "technical problems" all around the same time [1] makes me rather suspicious. Anyone remember all those technical problems the power industry in California suddenly ran into when doing so would make them a pile of money?

Yeah, exactly.

Get ready to be bent over the table this summer. Everything is going to go wrong, bet on it. Things tend to all go wrong when those who control whether they go wrong or not make billions from things just not working out.

And hey, there are no elections coming up this year and the regulators won't investigate, bank on it.

However, Congressional subpoenas rock. I suggest subpoenaing not CEO's, but technicians and low level managers from the various plants.