<div><div dir="auto">In my area, it might be possible, I think, to see sub $1. As of yesterday you could get gas here for $1.30. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And it’s already sub $1 in some areas, per the news:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5160056002">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5160056002</a></div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 6:49 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Gasoline prices lage behind North American crude prices, and are dampened somewhat from the extremes.<div><br></div><div>Gasoline won't go negative, or even sub-one-dollar, but they can reasonably be expected to dip substantially in the next 2-4 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Now might be a good time to buy some extra jerry-cans for when that happens.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:15 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><br><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:16 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">>>…Wow. You mean I can go fill up and they pay me? bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…If the negative prices had lasted long enough for effects to come down the supply chain all the way to your local gas station, that might indeed have happened eventually.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…They didn't, and it was expected they wouldn't… Adrian<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The kind of oil whose price went negative is the sour crude (high sulfur) which is more expensive to refine to the standards we demand, not the sweet crude we get from Saudi Arabia.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If your car burned sour crude oil you would be in good shape. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It doesn’t, so you still need to pay people to refine the crude into gasoline, transport it to the gas station, pay the gas station to maintain the equipment to pump it out of the underground tank into your car and measure the amount you used in order to bill you. You also still need to pay the taxes on the fuel. Add all that together and it still goes over 3 bucks a gallon, which is what I paid this morning.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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