Tom Kloza
Tom Kloza
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Last year the market was anticipating such an incredible spring they valued the winter gasoline even a bit higher.
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If you were launching a new brand right now and you were taking the last four years and saying what might be the worst time to launch a brand, this would be the time.
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It looks like things will go a little higher -- right around $3 a gallon, ... But it's not going to happen at light speed like it did last time with Katrina.
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Unfortunately, 2006 is a year where those records are still possibly threatened.
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We will probably see some states this week with retail gasoline prices of $2 a gallon or lower.
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One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.
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We're looking at some pretty compelling increases mostly for gasoline, and it's based on worry,
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Refinery margins just absolutely catapulted off the charts in 2005.
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Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.
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It is not a name that the public has an association with. In fairness to them, it is Russian-owned but U.S.-managed.
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It is difficult to look forward to the first 100 or 200 days of 2006 and not conclude that the year will be reminiscent of 2005 with powerful and pronounced updrafts on prices.
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I think everyone was underestimating the impact of Rita on refineries. It wasn't a Howitzer blow, but we took a bunch of bullets.
I think it's going to be another one of those years.
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I can tell you traders aren't thrilled by that idea.