ConocoPhillips refines crude oil into petroleum products such as gasoline, distillates and aviation fuels.
Refineries profit from the difference between crude oil and refined products, such as gasoline.
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The refined products and marketing division is responsible for refining and marketing various products such as gasoline, aviation fuel, fuel oil and middle distillates.
Thus, there should not be any shortages in refined oil products such as gasoline from this incident (especially as long as the LOOP remains operational).
Houston-based Kinder Morgan operates and owns approximately 24, 000 miles of natural gas pipelines, 8, 000 miles of pipelines that transport refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and more than 2, 000 miles of pipeline that transports crude oil.
For decades, problems such as rising gasoline prices and traffic congestion on I-15 have aggravated Vegas-bound weekenders.
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That tax cut has provided important support for the economy, especially at a time when the economy was hit with some shocks such as rising gasoline prices and supply-side shocks from the earthquake in Japan, problems in Europe.
Some levies such as those on gasoline and cigarettes will be boosted.
Kagwanja says rural Zimbabweans are no longer able to get anything that comes from outside the country, such as paraffin, gasoline, and medicine.
The way in which we get poorer is by rising prices such as those for gasoline, and a broad economic deterioration which is quite difficult to put your finger on exactly.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department reports that December retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted over November and 6.2 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
Meanwhile, January retail sales data, released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, showed total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 5.6 percent unadjusted year-over-year and 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month.
Meanwhile, September retail sales released by the Commerce Department show that total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 1.1 percent month-to-month and 8.6 percent over last year, partially due to strong auto sales.
The NRF results are in line with data released by the U.S. Commerce Department that shows total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month and 9 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
Namely, beyond foregoing the obvious benefits that come from value-added processing such as refining (gasoline sells a lot more per gallon than the cost of a gallon of crude oil), we are incurring secondary costs that impact, in part, the very environment that radical environmentalists are trying to protect.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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One is products with a high commodity content, such as metals, food and gasoline.
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And if we add in other federal taxes, such as the federal excise tax on gasoline, the numbers come down even further.
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None of these factors bode well for consumers' confidence as they struggle with common living expenses, such as higher home-heating fuel and gasoline costs.
The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal for electricity and oil for gasoline, has caused the overwhelming bulk of the man-made increase in carbon in the air, scientists say.
According to Earth-Policy.org, if the United States replaced its entire fleet of passenger cars with "super-efficient" hybrids such as these over the next 10 years, gasoline use would be slashed in half.
This is because of a relatively small contribution of natural gas to ConocoPhillips? stock value compared to other petroleum products produced by ConocoPhillips such as crude oil, natural gas liquids, gasoline, distillates, fuel oil, and a variety of others.
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The CPI also ignores the direct cost of property taxes--sure to go up as states and cities bail out underfunded pension plans--and subtracts the "hedonic" effects of regulations that increase quality of life, such as the added expense of pollution-reducing gasoline additives.
For example, a federal requirement that new cars sold in America be capable of using methanol and ethanol, as well as gasoline, would create markets for such alcohol-based fuels and competition that will drive down gas prices.
Gasoline consumption could be negatively impacted by economic turbulence, such as a dip in employment.
Problems arise when there's not a human around to intervene, such as at unmanned tollbooths, train station ticket kiosks or self-serve gasoline pumps.
It also revealed a 1999 memo by an unidentified BP executive that discussed ways to "shut down ... supply" to increase prices, including such measures as buying rival refiners and closing them, or offering to supply gasoline to rivals in return for their agreement to eliminate their own refining capacity.
The few hybrids BMW has introduced previously, such as the ActiveHybrid 7 and ActiveHybrid X6, which use an eight-cylinder gasoline engine instead of a six-cylinder, have not sold well.
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Trading in commodities such as oil and gold also stayed open, and the threat posed by Hurricane Sandy to gasoline refineries on the East Coast put a particular premium on watching the price moves in energy-related commodities.
China's longer-term opportunity is to build an auto industry based not on the gasoline engine but on alternative fuels, skipping a generation of technology as it has done in areas such as telecoms.
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