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Turbineguy

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1. It has to do with the way the products are spread

Reply to luckyleftyme2 (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 09:27 PM

Dec 2011

From a barrel of oil you get (approximately):

19.5 gallons of gasoline
9.2 gallons of distillate fuel
4.1 gallons of jet fuel.

etc.

So unless there is twice the demand for gasoline as diesel and heating oil, the price of heating oil will go up and the price of gasoline will do down.

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why the high cost of heating oil [View all] luckyleftyme2 Dec 2011 OP

It has to do with the way the products are spread Turbineguy Dec 2011 #1