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Rubatex Msds As oil prices jump to a 14-year high, there is growing speculation that gasoline this summer could reach a national average of $2 per gallon, and even higher in some regions.

"Wholesale prices have been creeping up for some time now and several analysts are predicting gas bills to rise by at least 15 percent. Almost three quarters of UK homes are connected to the gas mains, so this will affect millions of people directly. However, it¯ not just gas bills that are likely to soar. With 40% of the UK's electricity generated by burning gas, a rise in wholesale gas prices means that electricity bills will rise too.

Rubatex Neoprene Dwindling stockpiles and increasing demand have put new pressure on both crude oil prices and the tab at the gas pump, analysts said.

åhat¯ more worrying for customers, however, is that wholesale gas prices have started to creep up. With 70% of UK homes connected to the gas mains, and 40% of the UK¯ electricity coming from gas, rising wholesale prices are bad news for the entire domestic energy market. Some analysts are predicting that energy prices will rise by the end of the year and we are seeing more and more customers enquiring about capped energy tariffs.

Rubatex Pipe Separate surveys this week had the national average of gasoline at $1.72 a gallon for regular grade and $1.77 a gallon for all grades. That is a 26-cent increase since the first of the year, according to the Lundberg Survey, which tracks prices at 8,000 stations.

Business electricity customers should expect to be affected by recent and predicted price increases by energy suppliers, according to a leading analyst. Tariq Akbar, who is the senior energy analyst at research firm Datamonitor, also stated that organisations are "under pressure" from suppliers who claim they have had their hand forced on price rises owing to high wholesale price increases. Speaking to BusinessGreen.com, he added that the rising costs may encourage businesses to...

Rubatex Pipe Insulation Crude oil closed Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange at $38.18 a barrel, the highest since October 1990. It had peaked during Wednesday trading at $38.35, a level not reached since it briefly neared $40 a barrel a few weeks before the start of the Iraq war a year ago.

"Over the past year, wholesale gas prices have fallen by half, with wholesale electricity costs down by almost a third. publicised price reductions, the major suppliers have only brought average bills down by around 15 to 20 percent. If energy prices rise as much as analysts are predicting, customers could be forced to pay an extra 31 per year in energy bills.*

Rubatex 180 The high cost of crude is causing refiners to shy away from buying oil, analysts say. It also is leaving inventories of crude as well as petroleum products, including gasoline, at levels well below normal. That, in turn, is putting pressure on prices.

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Rubatex 180 Fs ``We have very low crude inventory stocks, low gasoline inventory right now. ... We're not seeing the buildup (of stocks) in the rate we normally see,'' said Ed Silliere, vice president of risk management at Energy Merchant Corp.

Rubatex 1800 ``It's a viewpoint that the market will have better supply down the road,'' he said, adding that refiners at today's crude prices do not want to take on more oil than they can use.

Rubatex 320 While crude inventories actually increased slightly last week, stocks of gasoline declined by 800,000 barrels to nearly 10 million barrels below the five-year average for this time of year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Rubatex 373 The agency said refiners were producing gasoline at a rate of 8.6 million barrels a day, the most since the week just before Christmas. But demand also has risen.

Rubatex Rubber Overall, motorists used an average of 8.9 million barrels of gasoline a day over the past month, 4.5 percent more than the same time a year ago, the agency said in its weekly report.

Rubatex Tape Gasoline stocks fell to 199.6 million barrels last week, declining for the first time since Nov. 28 to below 200 million barrels, the report said.

Rubatex Closing The agency, which uses a different survey method than Lundberg's, put the price of regular-grade gasoline at $1.72 a gallon last week, a decline of 1.4 cents from the week before. Prices in some regions were much higher -- an average of $2.10 a gallon in California, for example.

Rubatex Closed Cell Gasketing Analysts expect gasoline prices to go still higher as the summer driving season approaches, probably eclipsing $2 a gallon on a national average.

Felpro Gaskets Silliere said that new environmental requirements involving toxicity and requirements in the Northeast for use of the ethanol additive will require changes in gasoline chemistry that will make it harder for European suppliers to ship gasoline into the United States to ease supply concerns.

Poly Products Supplies He said he would not be surprised if prices went to $2.50 a gallon in some Northeast states, the West Coast and parts of the Midwest where price spikes have been common in past summers.

Poly Hunting Feeders Distillate inventories, which include heating oil and diesel fuel, fell 900,000 barrels to 111.8 million barrels last week, according to the EIA. Distillate stocks have fallen eight times in the last nine weeks.

Shoreline 13171 17 Neoprene Crude inventories rose for the third straight week to 281.1 million barrels, an increase of 1.6 million barrels, but still 23.4 million barrels below the five-year average for this time of year.

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Associated Press - 3/18/2004

Topic: Petroleum Industry