[tcostell]

The role that speculators play in the market and their effect on the price of oil can be found here:

Blame The Speculators!

[chaos_5]

But wait: The oil companies don't set the price of oil or the cost of a gallon of gas.

If only the media would tell the sheeple this more often.

[caver]

Good article! Thanks for posting.

[Publius6961]

In the first quarter of this year, based on a retail price of gas that now seems like a steal — $3.11 a gallon — crude oil accounted for all but about a dollar, or 70 percent, of the cost, according to the federal government.

There is no reason to believe that that statement is not equally applicable today.

But educating the moonbats here in FR and elsewhere is like fertilizing a rock.
Too complicated maybe?

[count-your-change]

This might be useful:
“WWW.ENERGY.CA.GOV / GASOLINE / WHATS IN BARREL OIL
What’s In A Barrel of Oil?

Petroleum Products Yielded from One Barrel of Crude Oil in California

Product Percent of Total
Finished Motor Gasoline 51.4%
Distillate Fuel Oil 15.3%
Jet Fuel 12.3%
Still Gas 5.4%
Marketable Coke 5.0%
Residual Fuel Oil 3.3%
Liquefied Refinery Gas 2.8%
Asphalt and Road Oil 1.7%
Other Refined Products 1.5%
Lubricants 0.9% “
Total volume of products is close to 50 gallons due to addition of refining products and ethanol.

[jonrick46]

Rush posted a link about what’s made from a barrel of oil:

http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/whats_in_barrel_oil.html