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US running out of room to store oil; price collapse next?
AP ^ | 3 March 2015 | JONATHAN FAHEY

Posted on 03/03/2015 2:26:05 PM PST by BeauBo

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.

For the past seven weeks, the United States has been producing and importing an average of 1 million more barrels of oil every day than it is consuming. That extra crude is flowing into storage tanks, especially at the country's main trading hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, pushing U.S. supplies to their highest point in at least 80 years, the Energy Department reported last week.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: cushing; fracking; oil; oklahoma; opec; saudiarabia; strategicreserve
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To: BeauBo

excess can also be pumped back INTO the ground for later retrieval


21 posted on 03/03/2015 2:51:57 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: nickcarraway; al baby
Wouldn’t It be the opposite?

He's being sarcastic. Google peak oil.

22 posted on 03/03/2015 2:53:47 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: The Antiyuppie

I think Diesel is good for a year or better.


23 posted on 03/03/2015 2:59:05 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BeauBo

Well, two days ago in Cincinnati the price was $2.12/gal and today they are $2.39/gal.


24 posted on 03/03/2015 3:03:04 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Same here, prices are steadily rising.


25 posted on 03/03/2015 3:06:27 PM PST by Dawn53Fl
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To: al baby

This would be beyond peak oil in can we use the empty five gallon buckets bakers have left over after we fill all the tankers off shore and the rail tankers that W.B. can spare from his pipeline on wheels operation.

Oil traders are going to be stressed accordingly. Counting all those five gallon buckets won’t be easy.


26 posted on 03/03/2015 3:34:43 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: Dawn53Fl

“prices are steadily rising.”

Looking ahead a few weeks/months.

We are just coming out of the seasonal cutover of refineries, which causes a temporary shortage of refined products, while they retool and do maintenance.

That is ending, and inventory of crude is hitting an eighty year high.


27 posted on 03/03/2015 3:39:18 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo; expat_panama; abb

Everywhere but California.

Gas prices soar in California as supply shrinks
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-prices-soar-california-supply-shrinks-213436057—finance.html


28 posted on 03/03/2015 3:44:42 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: BeauBo

Thanks for the info.


29 posted on 03/03/2015 5:30:55 PM PST by Dawn53Fl
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To: BeauBo

There’s plenty of oil to invade, occupy and denazify Iran then.


30 posted on 03/03/2015 5:53:27 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: al baby

Peak storage.


31 posted on 03/03/2015 6:48:01 PM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Looks like my leftist friends there have wrecked Calif. just like they're now trying to wreck the U.S. Same methods used: amnesty, regulation, taxes, and tyranny.

Hmmm, maybe another coffee will help me lighten up a bit...

32 posted on 03/04/2015 2:09:29 AM PST by expat_panama
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