Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Classic TA Workplace -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nspolar who wrote (68675)	3/16/2003 10:10:09 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

nspolar, Minneapolis is inland without the availability of a water way for delivery goods by water transport in the winter. Lake Superior is frozen in the winter. We have a gasoline refinery close to the city that distributes to Minnesota and Wisconsin. I do not know if they distribute to Iowa and North Dakota. When I travel outside the city I have asked why gasoline is a penny or two higher than close to the city and they tell me the cost to transport from the refinery is the reason for the increase in price. I believe the crude oil comes to the refinery via pipeline. You are correct with your thoughts on environmental regulations as the refinery in Minneapolis regularly has problems with the state regulators. >>It will be interesting to see what happens to these capital intensive industries, after this bear concludes. Yes, I had not thought of this as it relates to our supply of gasoline.