Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Steve Maresca from Morgan Stanley.
Steve Maresca - Morgan Stanley
I have two questions on asphalt, one on supply and one on demand. You talked about your view on coker projects coming online and that beginning to have an impact in late 2011 and beyond. Sort of read that delay was idling or taking down a few cokers, can you talk about how that impacts asphalt supply and what are the chances that some of these coker units may not come on?
Curt Anastasio
Well, first of all on people idling bad cokers like Rolero (ph) that the reason they've done is actually helped reduce our supply this year. The light-heavy spreads came in. All these refineries try to lighten up this spread as much as possible so they've been getting less asphalt yield and that's why we're able to say as we did in my remarks that asphalt supply was a quite a bit lower, production quite a bit lower this year than it was in 2008. Not withstanding the idling of some coker capacity as you mentioned.
And then beyond that, this story beyond that has really changed hardly not at all, we had a couple of delays. We've actually had an increase from our in coker capacity. I think it comes to 40 some thousand barrels a day increase. That's in our plan for 2011 and later and not a reduction but an increase in coker capacity coming on. So, that thesis is still very much intact despite the couple of delays we had and may be one or two cancellations. We have more coker capacity coming on than we thought
Steve Maresca - Morgan Stanley
Okay, on the demand side, you talked about obviously the stimulus money, you were less confident last year about government Stimulus spending and how they'd impact. What is giving you potentially greater confidence in 2010 and what are you seeing real time data points that things are starting to move forward on some of these projects?
Curt Anastasio
Right. On the Stimulus spending -- the way the process worked after the government sort released this program in March really last year. States then had a period of time until June to identify the projects that they were going to do. Pretty much all of them did that, they identified their projects that they were going to do in order to get this stimulus money. And then after that you start the process of projects being led, and contracts had been processed and all the rest of it.
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