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Gasoline $100+/barrel On Spot Market  
User currently onlineAeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18806 posts, RR: 64
Posted (7 years 8 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 796 times:

As US oil companies bought up 20 shiploads of European petrol yesterday, the wholesale price of petrol on the Rotterdam spot market soared to a record of $855 a tonne (more than $100 a barrel), up more than 20% in two days and something experts said would feed through to the forecourt within days.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1561313,00.html

I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, but I didn't expect it this soon.


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User currently offlineILOVEA340 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 2100 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 787 times:

Keep in mind that this is the spot market. Fuel for November is still hovering around the $70 mark.

User currently onlineAeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 18806 posts, RR: 64
Reply 2, posted (7 years 8 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 784 times:

Quoting ILOVEA340 (Reply 1):
Keep in mind that this is the spot market.

Yes, that's why I entitled the thread that way. And it's for refined gasoline/petrol, not crude oil.

What one pays at the pump is also a "spot price" (though not always "the" spot price, however), and the U.S. has 20 shiploads of very expensive gasoline heading across the Atlantic right now.


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User currently offlineCfalk From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 774 times:

That's for processed gasoline. Gasoline usually costs about $0.60 more per gallon, and there are 55 gallons in a barrel, which equals an extra $33. With oil at around $70 per barrel, gasoline will of course be over $100.

Charles
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