US refiners are turning crude oil into products like gasoline and diesel at a pace not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but even that is unlikely to rein in soaring prices soon amid a historic fuel crunch.
Refineries last week processed 17 million barrels of crude oil a day, according to the Energy Information Administration, in a full-throttle effort to meet global and domestic fuel demand. That’s the highest weekly average since September 2019.