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Economy
Slick move? Biden orders release of FIFTY MILLION barrels of oil from US reserves today in bid to lower prices at the pump - which have hit $4.84 a gallon in California
2021-11-23
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  
Some math

C'mon man! MAFF be hard. Go Brandon!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-11-23 18:34  

#11  /\ What am I missing? Oh.... WAIT !
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-11-23 15:56  

#10  That's it exactly.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-11-23 15:37  

#9  This sums it up...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-11-23 13:48  

#8  Thank you for fixing the math.
I was about to take my shoes off.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-11-23 13:35  

#7  NN2N1,
Actually you are off by a factor of 10. This release is 3 days worth of gas. So Zero Hedge is right, this really is a rounding error for gas prices.

Depending on how quickly they release it, and where, it might have a marginal effect on the Christmas shopping season.
Posted by: Angack B. Hayes6356   2021-11-23 12:00  

#6  Isn't half that price self-inflicted?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-11-23 10:28  

#5  ^ I was wrong on the above. It is all coming from SPR.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-11-23 10:16  

#4  The 50 million number is a "coordinated release," so not all of it is from the US SPR, nor is all of it coming here. AFAIK, anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-11-23 10:15  

#3  Some math
a barrel of oil equals about 20 gallons of gas per barrel.
20 x 50 million = 1 Billion of eventul gas.

The USA uses about 340 million of gas a day.
Of 29 days of gas.

Or enough to us thru the holidays to help the stores.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-11-23 10:08  

#2  At ZH, (where no news is good news, ever) they are calling it a "rounding error."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-11-23 09:59  

#1  WTI has been below $80/barrel most of the past week or so.

Interestingly, the market expected a bigger release so the price of oil is actually up today (though still below $80/bar.

FYI, average daily consumption of oil products in the US is between 10M and 16M barrels.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-11-23 09:56  

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