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The answer to the problem is more refineries and additional refinery capacity.
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Read this as you contemplate that EV is only a step towards clean burning biofuel powered turbo hybrids that get 250 mpg.
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I’ll likely plan to continue to run the 93 octane combined with the Stabil 360 at each of my fill ups.
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I’ll likely plan to continue to run the 93 octane combined with the Stabil 360 at each of my fill ups.
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Refining operations are more complicated that most people understand, some refineries because the way they are configured can only run certain kinds of crude oil.
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The refinery management team is responsible to run the refinery for maximum profit, so if they can make more money selling jet fuel, they run the refinery in such a way that it makes more jet and less gasoline.
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The refinery management team is responsible to run the refinery for maximum profit, so if they can make more money selling jet fuel, they run the refinery in such a way that it makes more jet and less gasoline.
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I thought I read adding corn to gasoline is just a bad idea all around but looks like corn lobbists are going to sleeze more of it in our tanks. What will it do to older cars like ours?
Interesting. I stopped in a small town last night and filled up my Cayenne GTS. Car felt like it was a tick more responsive and the engine just "felt" better.....
Out of curiosity, I checked that website. Turns out the place I stopped to fill up has ethanol free fuel. The last three places I filled up prior have ethanol fuel.
as someone who knows the industry inside out and has almost 2 mil invested in some companies the problem is that they don�t know what they are doing. The current President response to high fuel prices is to release more crude oil from the strategic reserve. That�s crude oil, not refined finished products. The big issue and you must understand the problem before attempting to come up with a solution is that there has not been a new refinery built in the USA since the 1960s, no one wants a smoke stack, refinery flare etc next to their house. Refining operations are more complicated that most people understand, some refineries because the way they are configured can only run certain kinds of crude oil.
anyway
the administration could help fix the
problem by allowing let�s say two new refineries to be built in federal land. That will solve the problem, you�ll see what�s going to happen once we get into the summer driving season, refineries will be running above capacity and still fuel prices will be thru the roof.
Do we import any refined product? I see tank vessels all the time in my northeast area. Until last Spring when we sold our boat, we spent most of the summer on the water. These tank vessels are smallish in the 650 ft range but they go up Narragansett Bay to Providence where they offload. Do you think they are coming from overseas?
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Rick PSX ( Phillips 66) it�s the largest refiner in the us. It has their refineries plus the ones from ConocoPhillips when they merged and then separated. This is my second largest holding in my portfolio. Up to the end of last year, they were exporting refined products, gas, diesel, jet fuel , kerosene. On the last analyst call, the quarter ended Dec 31 they didn�t spoke much about export because they were in Turnaround schedule which was still going till the end of the March quarter. In Europe they own the largest refinery which is in Humber and over there they market as Jet and some other brand. There is always the probability of bringing refined product over here but the cost of shipping is thru the roof and the gas that sells in the stations here at $3.69 a gallon sells in Europe at
$7 a gallon. Mexico who�s closest to us actually does not refines enough and they are always buying from the us. The prices over here Houston as low as $3.69 for regular, $4.49 premium 93. Over here this is going to be my forecast when we get into the summer driving season we are going to be at the high on $4.75 a gallon regular, $5.50/ gallon for premium. God bless California and Illinois by then. Now since I know refining I give you some more intel. Airline travel is also set to increase exponentially, so now you bring Jet Fuel into play. The refinery management team is responsible to run the refinery for maximum profit, so if they can make more money selling jet fuel, they run the refinery in such a way that it makes more jet and less gasoline. Yes there are a bunch of jet fuels to, I�m extremely familiar with JP-4 and JP-5. On top of all of that, then we got the summer, we have to generate more electricity guess what it takes some type of refined product. The answer to the problem is more refineries and additional refinery capacity.
Gasoline is more expensive in Europe because of taxes.
There isn�t more profit.
The same reason the prices vary from state to state.
My neighbor to the east, New Jersey, used to have much cheaper gas than Pennsylvania.
But their gas TAX has risen from 14.5 cents per gallon to 50.7 per gallon since 2016.
Have you ever wondered why within a mile you see 2 shell stations and their prices are different. The owners of the gas station negotiate with the oil company their contracts. There are committed volumes , but there are all kinds of incentives to move the needle. Also my cousin is a Vp at a oil company and she manages the station businesses. Phillips 66 has more than 7500 stations under their brands. Where gas stations make a ton of money is in the convenience store sales. As an owner of a gas station is your decision to manage price volume curve but you get a lot of in incentives that the end consumer never knows. Over here in Houston a lot of people from India own gas stations believe me they know how to make money, not necessarily selling a gallon of gas at the highest price. Again a game to maximize profitability not necessarily sales, along the highways you see a few stations with lower prices, their strategy is to increase foot traffic to sell a bunch of other stuff. The huge outfits, Bucces in Texas, Flying J, Loves, etc. Yes I agree with you state taxes play a roll but that�s not the total story. When I picked my car up in Chicago super was at $4.49 a gallon got to my house here in Texas same day Shell v power 93 $2.99. Illinois does not has a $1.50 fuel tax difference per gallon than Texas.
pretty soon the Houston metroplex will be the 3 third largest in country by passing Chicago. Part of the equation is the cost of living. Hell Obama doesn�t even live there. The weather can be horrible too, on the other hand I love Vienna hot dogs and off course deep dish with a good dark or ipa. One of my favorite restaurants in the world Chicago chop house, not certain if it still there.
�Chicago charges $1.02 per gallon in taxes by including city and Cook County taxes and fees�
While I agree there are other factors, taxes are still the main one.
The state of Texas charges only 18.4 cents per gallon. So out of whatever over $1.50 a gallon price difference, 84 cents is the state gasoline tax difference. The rest 66 cents plus someone is pocketing, anyway as anyone knows illinois , Chicago are broke and they still take all those taxes from people. My conclusion grossed mismanagement. The city of Houston is better but still budget issues.it should be a requirement for government employees to know about management and accounting, we have a lot of idiots in government that would not last a week in private industry.
Same in RI. Government has large hands at all levels to siphon money out of the nonexistent economy. If it weren't for the federal presence in RI there would very few real jobs here.
The other thing I’ve been debating- in my state (Ohio) the best ethanol free fuel is 91 octane. I do run a 93 octane tune on my car. I’ve been scratching my head if the ethanol free 91 will end up still being better than the 93 ethanol based offerings around?
I do use Stabil 360 year round as well, don’t know if it actually helps some of the negative ethanol effects. Theoretically it should
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Someone explained this to me and it made sense then but I'm open to be educated. 93oct is 93oct regardless if it's ethanol free or not, same for other octanes. My understanding regarding ethanol in our cars is long term effects on fuel systems and to include lines due to ethanol introducing corrosion. Doesn't ethanol have higher knock resistance but at the loss of efficiency? I know a bunch of people who run Ethanol set ups and their tunes are as aggressive as they would be on C10 and alike.
This is absolutely right. Octane is octane regardless of ethanol percentage, so you should prioritize the right octane for your tune rather than ethanol percentage. I don't know if E85 is more resistant to knock because of the ethanol, but it is definitely the cheapest most readily available way to get high octane gas, which is why it is so popular for tuned cars. Most E85 is 100-105 octane. It also burns cooler and more completely than gasoline.
Thanks for sharing. I’ll likely plan to continue to run the 93 octane combined with the Stabil 360 at each of my fill ups. I have high hopes the Stabil will offer some protection against the negatives of the ethanol based fuel in our fuel lines, pumps, tanks etc.
Yes. Octane rating measures the fuel's resistance to pre-ignition. High compression or forced induction engines require it because they are prone to igniting the fuel before the piston reaches the top of its stroke. As someone else mentioned, the boosted folks love E85 because it lets them turn up the pressure. It also trashes their gas mileage but so what.
Yep.
Audi supplying engines to McClaren and Porsche to Red Bull starting in 2026 is getting closer to a done deal. This pushes the new era of turbo 6 biofuel powered hybrids closer to reality. Porsche/Audi isn't getting into F1 to sell electric cars. They are getting into F1 to sell biofuel powered turbo hybrids.
Looking forward to biofuel and looking forward to 250 mpg hybrids to drive around town by 2030.
Porsche is making a bigger investment in efuel. Afraid that fuel to power our 996 will go away as the world gets more green? Hogwash. Read this as you contemplate that EV is only a step towards clean burning biofuel powered turbo hybrids that get 250 mpg.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/06/...ls-global.html
