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That would explain the steady decline, but doesn't explain what I think is the real question, the drastic drop starting in October 2011.
by mbell 14y ago
That would explain the steady decline, but doesn't explain what I think is the real question, the drastic drop starting in October 2011.
- ars 14y agoThe data seems a bit fishy to me. I have a hard time believing that gasoline consumption did not change for 22 years (1986 to 2008).
- mbell 14y agoThats not what the data represents. It represents sales by refiners to retail. That is buying gas from a Shell gas station (also a refiner) counts, buying gas from a mom + pop corner store who wholesale buys their gas from a refiner (or distributor) doesn't count. The graph seems to just say that some refiner sold off their retail gas stations (or something like that).