[IP] -- more on -- Price of Gasoline

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:23:38 -0700
> From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> For IP if you wish...
>
> Dave Farber wrote:
> >
>
> A local newspaper report here in Phoenix yesterday stated that Arizona
> has no local refinery and so we are at the mercy of the two pipelines
> coming in to Arizona from New Mexico and California.
>
> That made me sit up...
>
> If all the gasoline comes in via the two pipelines, and there are no
> local refineries, how can there be any qualitative difference between
> the various gasoline brands (unless they use "time slices" or "flow
> slices" in the pipeline). Does that mean that all gasoline in Phoenix is
> the same?
>
> Sounds like a snow job. By the way, the report gave a totally
> unbelievable explanation for the fact that our prices have gone up 60c
> per gallon since the break, and although gas is flowing, the prices have
> not come down. I paid $2.45 a gallon this morning! What a rip.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Rodney Joffe
> CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
> http://www.centergate.com
> "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)

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