These are pretty challenging circumstances. |
These are pretty threatening circumstances. |
These fees have stayed the same for the past two years for something that many feel is cheaper to do, which a lot of these marketers think is obscene and is one of the hidden costs in these high prices. |
They're normally about $5 to $10 a barrel. Now, it's closer to $20 to $30. And that's because a lot of money is flowing in on the fear we won't have enough refining capacity this summer. |
This is a crisis. You are going to see some runs on supply. |
This is an extremely serious situation. |
This is speculation and fear about what is more or less a typical September event. It really underscores how maniacal the entire oil trading business has become. |
This is the traditional trough of prices, ... I'd make book with anybody that we're going to see one hell of a spike next year. |
This may be the year of the 'quarter per quarter' gasoline market. Don't be surprised to see pump prices go up at least 25 cents a gallon in each of the first three quarters. It won't take a calamity to create havoc; it's built right into the infrastructure. |
This will get worse before it gets better. |
Throughout the last decade, we've seen February fire sales on gasoline that represented the 'perishable' winter blends that had limited shelf life. |
Traders appear to have digested Wednesday's news on the EPA waiver, the SPR crude release and the imminent restarts of the Colonial and Plantation Pipelines. |
Unfortunately, 2006 is a year where those records are still possibly threatened. |
Unfortunately, I don't think $3 a gallon is a hyperbolic number in some markets anymore. |
We are seeing a smattering of sub-$2 prices surfacing like premature crocuses across the country, and we may see a flirtation with $2 or less in a broad swath of the country this month. |