U.S. crude exports and refinery inputs advance to records Gas-guzzling is hot again as demand hits highest level ever There’s a loud sucking sound coming from the depths of oil storage tanks across the United States. The combined effort of American drivers, gung-ho refiners and exporters are starting to reduce the nation’s oil stockpiles, an outcome that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has been hoping to see since it agreed to cut production in November. Last week total U.S. crude exports, gross refinery inputs and demand for gasoline all pushed to records in weekly preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. “Refinery runs are ridiculous. I posted a meme where it’s the line from Top Gun,” said Mason Hamilton, an EIA analyst by phone from Washington, D.C. “‘I feel the need to run the refinery full out.’ Maybe U.S. refiners were inspired by last week’s […]