RE: Brin: On Gasoline

2012-02-23 Thread Dan Minette

I think that something is missing in the charts that argue for a great drop
in gasoline.  If you look at the official gasoline consumption chart, it
gives a very different story:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PETs=MGFUPUS1f=M

There's been a 10% drop since the peak in 2007, but we're at the 2001
levels.  If you look at the 78-81 drop it was 50^ bigger, and consumption
doesn't hit the 78 numbers until '93 even though prices went through the
floor in '86. And, ethanol has been a highly subsidized substitute, which
should lower gasoline consumption about 3%, even with fuel consumption
constant.  In other words, someone is manipulating numbers. 

Dan M.   


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Re: Brin: On Gasoline

2012-02-23 Thread ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
Dan Minette wrote:

 And, ethanol has been a highly subsidized substitute, which
 should lower gasoline consumption about 3%, even with fuel consumption
 constant.

BTW, isn't it funny that, in 2011, Brazil was a huge importer of USA's
ethanol? So, the american taxpayers are financing brazilian sugar exports.

Alberto Monteiro

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RE: Brin: On Gasoline

2012-02-23 Thread Dan Minette
BTW, isn't it funny that, in 2011, Brazil was a huge importer of USA's
ethanol? So, the american taxpayers are financing brazilian sugar exports.

Yes, it shows that that the most critical factor in determining America's
interest is who wins the Iowa caucus.

Dan M. 


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Re: Brin: On Gasoline

2012-02-18 Thread KZK

On 2/11/2012 5:50 PM, KZK wrote:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/gasoline-tanking02-12.html

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/huge-plunge-in-petroleum-and-gasoline.html


Moar:

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/energy-consumption-dropping02-12.html


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Brin: On Gasoline

2012-02-11 Thread KZK

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogfeb12/gasoline-tanking02-12.html

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/huge-plunge-in-petroleum-and-gasoline.html


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