Tim Evans
Tim Evans
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To put that offer on the table for the next three months, it's clear to me that they're willing to steer the price lower, ... They really don't want every U.S. consumer to park their SUV and buy gasoline-electric hybrids -- they don't want to trigger that kind of consumer response.
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We wanted to connect with people as strongly as some of our great advertising campaigns of the past did -- such as with Beattie with Maureen Lipman or Bob Hoskins in 'It's good to talk' -- but in a way that's relevant to today's modern relationships.
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Consumers would benefit from more refinery capacity and more competition in the refinery business.
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Current chilly temperatures in the Northeast U.S. also helped boost prices, although these are not expected to last.
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Crude oil may have been able to trigger short covering off the surprise 1.3 million-barrel draw from last week, but inventories are still at their second-highest weekly total since April 1999.
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Everything pretty much came within the range of expectations so there were no dramatic surprises here.
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There is nothing close to a physical shortage going on here. Instead, what the market is holding here is a significant, and in fact growing, implied risk premium.
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There is so far an insatiable appetite for holding more inventory. We're still not recognizing it as a glut.
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Warm temperatures now forecast to persist on into early February undercut physical demand for heating fuels.
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A Bush status quo results in somewhat higher oil prices both in the short and the longer term in my view,
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This is really just some short-term consolidation. We are inside of yesterday's range.
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This is really a happy accident as far as OPEC is concerned.
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The weather outlook remains a potential fundamental support for these markets, but it has been so well advertised and has failed to boost prices to such an extent as to suggest that it is still too little winter, too late in the season to matter.
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This could be almost worse than Katrina because there are 4 million barrels of refining in Texas areas, much more than there was in New Orleans. (Texas) is the other major refining heart.