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Huge Plunge In Petroleum and Gasoline Usage
Global Economic Trend Analysis ^ | 2/6/12 | Mish Shedlock

Posted on 02/06/2012 9:00:17 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin

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To: DeaconBenjamin
I've gone Galt by not trying to get a raise and by spending as little money as I possibly can.

It's working!

21 posted on 02/06/2012 9:40:50 AM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Too many lawmakers, too many laws, too many lawyers.)
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To: Joe the Pimpernel

The more ya make, the more they take...It just feeds the monster.


22 posted on 02/06/2012 9:45:22 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

This will push the fed.gov to “justify” pushing a “by-the-mile” road use tax in all states. Monitoring will be by GPS devices. All data must go to the fed.gov for accurate billing.

Of course, knowing the exact location and tracking all moment will be “coincidental” would never be abused by the feds.

Never. Just ask them.

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23 posted on 02/06/2012 9:48:45 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

See, green does work! This is the result of all those Chevy Volts!

Me, I can’t afford the gas to drive to the grocery store so the car stays in the garage.


24 posted on 02/06/2012 9:49:31 AM PST by bgill (The Obama admin is staging a coup. Wake up, America, it's almost too late.)
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To: TLI

Movement.

I just luvvvvv spell check...

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25 posted on 02/06/2012 9:52:06 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Augustinian monk

Well, I think some part of this can be explained in the following ways:

1. No question, the average fleet MPG of US cars has gone up, even with new car purchasing at a lower level.

2. In the long run, people are taking commuting to work or to potential work very seriously in choosing where they live.


26 posted on 02/06/2012 9:52:40 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: DeaconBenjamin

And our trainee president is getting better as he goes. See how he is preserving energy and saving the environment? America is standing still, taking a break.


27 posted on 02/06/2012 9:54:19 AM PST by pallis
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To: Paladin2

prices @ the pump should be plunging. i’ve been anxiously awaiting it, because I buy 65 gallons a week. it’s simple supply and demand


28 posted on 02/06/2012 9:54:30 AM PST by stickywillie (a corrupt parallel universe exists beside our wonderful Constitution)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

So they will raise prices once again and Rush and Hannity will tell us how we should be feeling sorry for the difficult times facing the oil companies.


29 posted on 02/06/2012 10:01:33 AM PST by easyrighter
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To: DeaconBenjamin

At this time I have only used one third of the oil I contracted for this year


30 posted on 02/06/2012 10:05:02 AM PST by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

It also doesn’t explain why I’m paying 30 cents more a gallon than I was two weeks ago. Sadly.


31 posted on 02/06/2012 10:07:11 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Why, yes. I AM in a bad mood.)
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To: lacrew
is Natural Gas considered ‘petroleum’ for the purpose of these graphs?

In reporting data, Natural Gas Liquids (ethane, propane, butane) are included but Methane (consumer/pipeline quality natural gas) is not included.

See the link below for the breakdown of usuage.

Petroleum Product Supplied
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_psup_dc_nus_mbblpd_m.htm


32 posted on 02/06/2012 10:10:12 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

That’s strange. Wonder why the price at the pump has risen 35 cents in the last week ...


33 posted on 02/06/2012 10:36:42 AM PST by fellowgeek (To geek or not to geek.)
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To: Paladin2

25 years after giving up riding a motorcycle, I bought one this winter and am riding it every chance I get. I am saving many, many bucks on gas and I don’t drive that much to start with since I am retired and don’t have to go to work every day.


34 posted on 02/06/2012 10:36:59 AM PST by calex59
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To: DeaconBenjamin

I remember in the good old days when a warm winter meant cheap diesel in the spring.


35 posted on 02/06/2012 10:37:42 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: I am Richard Brandon

This is why gas prices have gone up:

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-gas-prices-20120130,0,3885077.story

http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/01/18/hess-hovensa-refinery-to-be-shut-down-due-to-mounting-losses/


36 posted on 02/06/2012 11:03:28 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Yea! We're saved! Thank you President Obama!

37 posted on 02/06/2012 11:14:26 AM PST by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

I wonder how much of the price rise at the pump is due to congress ending the ethanol subsidies but is still mandating that the oil companies add it to the gasoline?


38 posted on 02/06/2012 11:17:33 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Obama's War on Prosperity is killing me)
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To: TLI

The gov’t needs to be put in a Faraday Cage.


39 posted on 02/06/2012 11:52:23 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: I am Richard Brandon

Incorrect explaination...The #1 export for the USA in 2011?
http://forums.motortrend.com/70/9029124/the-drive-in/us-1-export-in-2011wasfuelwho-would-have-thought/index.html


40 posted on 02/06/2012 11:56:19 AM PST by Deaf Smith
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