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1 comment Sunday 31 Aug 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

UPDATE 4:50pm EDT: LOOP (Louisiana OffShore Oil Port) has been closed. Gustav is forecast to hit it directly. Any damage to LOOP would be catastrophic to the county and could raise oil prices $10 or more per barrel. This port provides over 1-million barrels of oil per DAY to the United States (via Middle East [...]

0 comments Saturday 30 Aug 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

Note: I decided I had better take a quick break from vacation. I was away hiking in Yellowstone, please forgive me for not posting.
When my phone got service yesterday, I had received numerous voice-mails informing me that a Hurricane “Gustav” had formed and could be effecting gas prices. Unfortunately I’ve been out of the loop- [...]

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 [...]

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 Thursday 14 Feb 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

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 [...]

0 comments Wednesday 06 Feb 2008 | Posted By Patrick | Predictions

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 [...]