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Re:What is up with U.S. retail gasoline deliveries? by mbell on Saturday September 08, 2012 @11:36PM (#4494826)
That would explain the steady decline, but doesn't explain what I think is the real question, the drastic drop starting in October 2011.
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Re:What is up with U.S. retail gasoline deliveries? by ars on Sunday September 09, 2012 @12:03AM (#4494883)
The data seems a bit fishy to me. I have a hard time believing that gasoline consumption did not change for 22 years (1986 to 2008).
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Re:What is up with U.S. retail gasoline deliveries? by mbell on Sunday September 09, 2012 @12:12AM (#4494901)
Thats not what the data represents. It represents sales by refiners to retail. That is buying gas from a Shell gas station (also a refiner) counts, buying gas from a mom + pop corner store who wholesale buys their gas from a refiner (or distributor) doesn't count. The graph seems to just say that some refiner sold off their retail gas stations (or something like that).
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