Re: your edit- It’s not about getting it refined in time. It’s that oil is traded on an international market. So it doesn’t matter who buys our oil. It just matters that is being added to the global supply, which drives prices down globally. We can’t do much to influence gas prices domestically without those actions having similar impacts globally.

The benefit of this is that we can sell it to the highest bidder even if they are purchasing it overseas, and it will still benefit us at the pump locally