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0 comments Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

Ouch! What a terrible DOE report today, looks like large losses in gasoline stockpiles is becoming the norm. I’ll keep this short today so that I can enjoy just a little bit of vacation.
The DOE report as said was pretty rough for gasoline consumers. While oil inventories rose an amazing 9.6 million barrels, gasoline dropped [...]

5 comments Wednesday 13 Aug 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

Edit: Speedway has just hiked to $3.95 in Michigan; while not totally shocking, this is something that might have been expected. The Gas Game gets quite difficult to predict at times like this!
Another disappointing report from the Dept. of Energy this week, we can look for gasoline to trade higher today.
Perhaps due to the Hurricane/Tropical [...]

0 comments Thursday 26 Jun 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

Fill’er up tonight! After a 7-cent drop yesterday on the market, prices have *already* shot right back up to what they were at the market open on Wednesday. $4.15 has been a popular re-hike amount lately, but I expect between $4.19-$4.25 tomorrow in Michigan depending on today’s final numbers. Since Midwest PADD dropped significantly this [...]

0 comments Wednesday 04 Jun 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

It’s been a while since I wrote here folks, but it seems prices have been “somewhat” steady around our region, and quite steady (what a surprise!!) in Grand Rapids.
If you read my previous post about the Summer Forecast, you’ll have a better idea where this post fits in the big picture.
Of course my writing was [...]

2 comments Wednesday 26 Mar 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

Seeing as how refiners were losing money for parts of this week refining oil into gasoline, utilization was low. It is rare, but refiners were losing some money last week as the cost of a barrel of oil was *more expensive* than the cost of their finished gasoline. They were losing cents on refining every [...]

0 comments Wednesday 27 Feb 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

Its very good news this time of year when the DOE releases a “favorable” report like they did moments ago at the normal 10:30am time.
Highlights:
Cons:

Refineries operated at a low (albeit slightly higher than last week) 84.7% of capacity last week

Pros:

Crude oil inventories rose by 3.2 million barrels last week. At 308.5 million barrels, [...]