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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Kayaker who wrote (163772)2/12/2012 7:11:13 PM
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from your links i went to this matrix (below) for daily motor gasoline deliveries from refiners from 1983 to 2011. the last reporting date for this matrix was 2/1/2012 as noted on the matrix at the bottom of it. i can see there has been a gradual decline in motor gasoline deliveries since 1983, likely due to car efficiencies even as the number of cars has increased on amercan roads. also i can see some jumps and declines likely depending on driving season and various recession and expansion periods.

however the drop in motor gasoline refinery deliveries in october 2011 and november 2011 are huge relative to any other period i see since 1983. i am truly amazed at what might have been going on to cause this. i know i see no shortages at gas stations i drive by or fill up. did we go into a driving depression in october? are the gas guzzling older cars selectively come off the roads that fast, and the new ones get so much better mileage. is the unemployment simply keeping a ton of extra people from driving anymore? are that many more people simply working from home? i know some refiners are shutting down their operations permanently, but with this drop in gasoline deliveries per day to retail i think i would have seen a much larger increase in retail gasoline prices than i have seen since last autumn -- unless a lot less people are driving (or something).

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