Archive for February, 2008

Refinery explosion injures one, supports higher prices…

From Breitbart.com:

BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) - An explosion rocked
an oil refinery Monday in a violent blast that shook buildings miles
away and injured at least one person, the company said. All
workers were accounted for about an hour after the explosion, said
Blake Lewis, spokesman for refinery owner Alon USA. The injured worker
was in the hospital, but [...]

Speedway hikes to $3.19, more coming?

Speedway has just set the price of $3.19 at their stations this morning (fill up!), but the larger question- is this the start of the ugly mess called the “Spring Run-up”? I’m pretty sure this is it… just like the Nazi submarine in the movie U-571… we’re going up and can’t slow our ascent! We’re [...]

Here we go! Spring run-up in prices set to begin!

After watching the market the last week, I’m semi-convinced that we’re starting to see the “Spring Run-up” in prices. Last week gasoline traded roughly 20 cents cheaper on the wholesale market, and today, we’re at 2.40+ on the wholesale market. Last year, the run-up began in late January/early February. The question is- how high will [...]

Hike coming Monday or Tuesday, with more to follow

Comment on the January 27 prediction:  Prices jumped on January 29, so that prediction was CORRECT.  My crystal ball was too foggy last week to make a posting.
Saturday, February 9, 2008, 4:45 PM:  Big jumps on NYMEX on Friday means a price hike is coming on Monday or Tuesday, in the neighborhood of $3.09 again.  [...]

DOE Report Comments

Wow… today’s DOE report was a terrific read. I read a lot of good news from this week’s report on petroleum inventories.As typical, let me highlight some of it:
Pros

Oil inventories rose by 7 million barrels, pushing them into the middle of the average range
Gasoline inventories rose by 3.6 million barrels, keeping them above the upper [...]

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