Buy Refining Stocks Ahead of the Oil Bubble Burst

7/8 - "Recently, many investors have begun to speculate that the bull run in crude oil prices has reached bubble-like proportions. Some folks are saying that "speculators" have driven the price of crude to unsustainable levels and a painful correction is just around the corner...There's one sub-sector of the energy industry that would actually benefit big time from such an oil correction: Refiners."

"...profits at U.S. refinery operators plunged 98% in the first quarter because they were caught behind-the-curve on skyrocketing oil prices. Refiners have been raising prices to be sure. But they just haven't been able to hike prices for gasoline, heating oil, and jet fuel fast enough to keep up...These stocks have sunk 40% even as oil prices set new record highs. But the key to refinery profits is what's called the crack spread.

The crack spread is the theoretical p...