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A common sense kind of guy named Big Joe, who also happens to be black, was captured on camera wrecking some social justice warriors in the middle of a women’s march in Los Angeles after the inauguration of Donald Trump took place. As he said as a response to a question from the interviewer from #BasedInLA, he was not part of the march, but just happened to be passing through on his bicycle. He immediately expressed his confusion with the march when Jeffrey, the interviewer, began to ask him a few questions about the event. It was the perfect chance...

It seems like an easy fix. Oil prices have hit record highs. Ethanol, a gasoline additive, can both stretch our supplies of oil and ease air pollution. And best of all, it's a corn-based product. Although America imports nearly two-thirds of its oil, it grows all the corn it needs and more. So all lawmakers have to do is require that gasoline contain a given percentage of ethanol, and our gas-price problems won't be as bad. Or so the theory goes. The problem is, we've been doing this for years, and it's not working so well. In fact, it's part...

THIS WEEK IN PETROLEUM Understanding Gasoline Inventories With the dramatic drop in total gasoline inventories over the last few weeks (see Figure 4 in the Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR) or put your mouse on the word “Gasoline” in the stock chart to the left of this report), some analysts may be wondering if EIA is picking up all gasoline inventories during this transition from Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) reformulated gasoline (RFG) to ethanol RFG, since ethanol is not blended into the gasoline mixture until just before the gasoline gets shipped to the retail stations. Other analysts wonder if...

Gasoline Skyrocketing Gasoline prices have been on a tear recently with some of the largest weekly increases on record. In some parts of the country, prices at the pump have exceeded $3.00 per gallon for regular, although the average lingers near $2.80. Prices will go higher, muchhigher. These price increases, occurring fully two months before the summer season, have created alarm. The familiar cries in the press are back and predictably, politicians are looking for the usual suspects. Obviously, crude oil prices can in part explain the recent gasoline price increases, which almost mirror last year’s. Crude oil, which a...

<p>A former American University chemist yesterday reported that he and a Virginia entrepreneur had created a safe, pollution-reducing and mileage-boosting replacement for harmful gasoline additives.</p> <p>In a well-received paper presented at the annual American Chemical Society meeting that ended here yesterday, Paul Waters explained he had created a polymer additive for gasoline called polyisobutylene.</p>