Peter Beutel
Peter Beutel
additional almost bad everywhere expect gas increase news prices sometime
Right away, nationwide, we're going to see an increase of gas prices of 12 cents. We'll see it almost everywhere by Tuesday. In addition, sometime between St. Patrick's Day and the end of the month, I expect to see an additional 12 cents. This is extraordinarily bad news for the consumer.
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The only good news is that with margins like this, every refiner that can will ramp up output. There may be a long-term change because this storm has focused attention on the need for additional refineries. An aggressive company may agree to jump through the hoops to build the first new refinery in almost 30 years.
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If we come back on Monday and there is no new hurricane and Wilma has not done any damage to oil and gas production, then I think traders will be selling almost in relief,
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It is a powerful storm with the potential to cause a great deal of damage, but it looks extremely unlikely that this storm will threaten the offshore oil and gas producing regions of the Gulf.
builds expecting last major report three
Last week's report showed builds in all three major categories, but we aren't expecting this week's report to be as bearish.
concerned cut demand drop hawks number second threats
OPEC hawks are still concerned that demand could drop dramatically during the second quarter. But with there being a number of threats to supplies, the cartel did not feel it made sense to cut output.
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People are not paying very close attention to it, ... At this point this market is just living and dying with every twist and turn of weather report -- we'll probably revisit it later but it's not important until we get Rita out of our systems.
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We're already in the position where every refinery unit is vital just to meet demand. We don't have any spare capacity. That's what it makes it so critical.
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It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's hard to tell at what point consumers will start to balk. It defies the laws of economics.
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It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. With what's been going on the past few days, it's hard to see a solid reason why prices should be higher today. It's disturbing.
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With oil stocks so low, there's a huge amount of concern.
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The factor that's moving prices higher is the overarching petro-political fears. This market has a lot on its plate this week.
avoided gulf half storm traders
With another storm threatening the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning,
ethanol extremely gasoline nervous remain switch traders
Traders remain extremely nervous about gasoline supplies, especially with the switch to ethanol nationwide.