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EIA: Huge decline in oil inventories, gasoline inventories drop

GasBuddy Blog -- The Energy Information Administration released its weekly report on the condition of petroleum inventories in the United States today.

Here are some highlights:

CRUDE INVENTORIES:
Crude oil inventories decreased by 6.5 million barrels to a total of 373.6 million barrels. At 373.6 million barrels, inventories are 18.6 million barrels above last year (5.2%) and are above the upper limit of the average range.

GASOLINE INVENTORIES:
Gasoline inventories decreased by 2.2 million barrels to 207.9 million barrels. At 207.9 million barrels, inventories are down 7.3 million barrels, or 3.4% lower than last year. Here's how individual regions and their gasoline inventory fared last week: East Coast (-1.3mb); Midwest...

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Submitted Aug 01, 2012 By: PD

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albert2008 Champion Author Winnipeg Posts:7,332 Points:1,477,010 Joined:Sep 2008	Message Posted: Aug 5, 2012 8:32:11 AM Ignore albert2008 Report Abuse not good
honda0105 Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:18,590 Points:1,606,595 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Aug 5, 2012 7:26:08 AM Ignore honda0105 Report Abuse and we're back to August 2008 prices soon. Nothing but greed. No reason for it otherwise.
QualTekGuy Champion Author Illinois Posts:3,051 Points:730,175 Joined:Feb 2007	Message Posted: Aug 3, 2012 6:38:31 AM Ignore QualTekGuy Report Abuse Here comes the price rise.
cssco Champion Author Virginia Posts:7,306 Points:1,747,530 Joined:Feb 2006	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 3:36:22 PM Ignore cssco Report Abuse Some one neglected to compute the four week rolling average. Now what do we do without that information, it will make the coming week very difficult, if not impossible.
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JoeKR Champion Author New Jersey Posts:9,453 Points:1,741,970 Joined:Feb 2006	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 11:39:03 AM Ignore JoeKR Report Abuse A decline that leaves us 5% higher than last year hardly merits the screaming headline "Huge decline"!
treehood Champion Author San Diego Posts:2,028 Points:393,065 Joined:May 2011	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 9:02:38 AM Ignore treehood Report Abuse I'm not sure I see the evil genius here. We imported less oil because we have very high inventories and prices were also high, hence the inventory fell and we still have very high inventories.
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bluebird1 Champion Author Toronto Posts:15,715 Points:3,105,000 Joined:May 2004	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 8:11:16 AM Ignore bluebird1 Report Abuse Yada, yada...its still way better in US than Canada where gas is at least 1.50/gal US more.
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daquanabe Champion Author Houston Posts:1,808 Points:371,850 Joined:Oct 2009	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 7:58:56 AM Ignore daquanabe Report Abuse "Huge decline", really? Consumption is down, yet inventories are higher than last year, AND "above the upper limit of the average range." What a bunch of crap!
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merlinCO Champion Author Colorado Posts:1,625 Points:338,470 Joined:Mar 2012	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 7:58:24 AM Ignore merlinCO Report Abuse Supply and demand, this is how gas should be priced not what the economy does.
bridgerunner Champion Author Virginia Posts:4,772 Points:1,003,160 Joined:Jul 2009	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 7:58:17 AM Ignore bridgerunner Report Abuse "...EIA is just another FEDERAL JOKE, and a waste of taxpayer money..." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think that cableman31 is on to something.
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