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• Half Price Holiday Sale On Gas

  Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:15 PM
  

  Deflation is alive and well on street corners across the country. The average price for retail gasoline will descend below $2.15 gal this weekend, and if the truth be know, Americans will fuel up for the Thanksgiving holiday at about half the price they Read More... Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:15 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments Filed under: Ethanol, Crude, Diesel, Retail, Gas Prices, Jet Fuel, Petroleum Marketers, OPIS, heating oil, Chevron, Wall Street, Valero, Shell, gasoline crude oil economy predictions refiners American Express EIA Chavez

• B.S., M.S., Piled high & Deep

  Monday, November 03, 2008 4:46 PM
  

  I have the greatest respect for learning, so the moniker for today’s blog post refers not to the pursuit of knowledge but instead to the folly of believing that those with advanced degrees or with positions of importance are immune to the pitfalls Read More... Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 4:46 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• Boone, We Hardly Knew Ye

  Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:50 PM
  

  Not many answers are being clearly provided in the financial markets these days, but let me again take a shot at answering some questions related to energy pricing. Some are quite easy. Here goes: Q. How low can crude oil prices go? A. When markets have Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 5:50 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• Another Brick In The Wall

  Friday, October 10, 2008 9:07 AM
  

  I’ll get to the serious stuff in a moment, but allow me to mix in a few pieces of levity. The price of gasoline nationwide has dropped to $3.35 gal this morning, but unless you live in the backwoods, you can do better than average in pretty much Read More... Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 9:07 AM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• The Monkey's Paw

  Monday, October 06, 2008 6:26 PM
  

  One of the seminal pieces of English fiction I read in sixth grade was a short horror story called “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs. The title refers to a talisman that brings three wishes to the bearer, but each wish comes at a price Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 6:26 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• An Unbalanced Autumn

  Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:05 PM
  

  The autumnal and vernal equinoxes are times of balance, at least from the perspective of the planet rotating on its axis. However, anything but a balance is on display in the U.S. petroleum markets these days. Last weekend saw 50% or more of the local Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:05 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• The Agony & The Anomaly

  Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:20 PM
  

  Thank God for bankers, insurance conglomerates and credit executives of all shapes and sizes. If not for the questionable behavior of the folks who brought you credit default swaps and questionable financial engineering, the 24 hour media cycle might Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:20 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• IKE AFTERMATH: SUPPLY, AND NOT PRICE, MAY HAUNT AUTUMN FUEL MARKETS

  Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:51 PM
  

  Retail gasoline prices have moved up sharply in broad sections of the country, but it is supply , and not price that I’m worried about for the next few weeks. Incredibly diverse pump prices will be the norm, short-term, for a broad swath of the Read More... Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:51 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• The Ike Spike

  Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:34 PM
  

  September 11 Quick Update: Fuel prices are going absolutely ballistic this morning as Ike heads toward the largest refinery cluster on the planet. The thoughts below are still appropriate but the numbers have changed. We are seeing the price of spot or Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:34 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments Filed under: Crude, Diesel, Retail, Gas Prices, Petroleum Marketers, OPIS, Wall Street, Valero

• The Belushi Market

  Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:31 AM
  

  The last six days represent the U.S. oil business in microcosm - - particularly as it relates to the bipolar nature of “the market”. Gasoline futures, as well as the wholesale prices for Gulf Coast based quantities of motor fuel advanced by Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:31 AM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• Waiting For Gustav In the Just-In-Time Oil Business

  Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:41 PM
  

  Hurricane Gustav is barreling toward the most critical refining region on the globe, evoking some already myopic memories of Hurricane Katrina and what represented (on Labor Day weekend 2005) what was then a near apocalyptic vision for U.S. fuel values. Read More... Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:41 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• The Anti-Army Motto

  Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:17 PM
  

  We all love to criticize commodities’ markets but at least the participants never follow the unofficial U.S. Army credo of “hurry up and wait”. One can identify a 30-40 day pricing trend in the oil markets, sit back, and watch as the Read More... Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:17 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• Going With The Flow

  Friday, August 08, 2008 11:31 AM
  

  I’ve often compared the oil futures markets to a multi-trillion dollar game of Chutes & Ladders, the Milton Bradley board game where the luck of the dice would enable someone to climb past, or slip well beneath fellow competitors. (For my British Read More... Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 11:31 AM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• Oil Price Hiatus

  Monday, July 28, 2008 5:26 PM
  

  If an alien economist touched down on planet earth say on July 5 th , he, she, or it might have reasonably concluded by July 25 th that the world was in a bull market for stocks and a bear market for commodities. Today’s action gives pause to that Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 5:26 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments

• 200 Days of Shatner & Chipper Jones

  Friday, July 18, 2008 1:49 PM
  

  Oil price moves this week were violent, but the violence was manifest mostly to the downside. Some people were even convinced that it might be time to write the epitaph for the 2008 price spike. The change is welcome but the fat lady of oil price expansion Read More... Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 1:49 PM by Tom Kloza | 0 Comments