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- 22 Jan
The latest OPIS report shows that retail fuel margins increased for the second straight week, this time by $0.025 per gallon. The national average retail fuel margin is now $0.171 per gallon. The average retail fuel margin for 2013 now […]
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- 19 Dec
There is a terrific article published by the MIT Sloan School of Management titled “Is It Time to Rethink Your Pricing Strategy?” found here, and though it is based on research across a broad spectrum of companies, it has direct […]
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- 14 Dec
Everyone knows that GasBuddy provides rich content for gas station pricing in cities all across the US. GasBuddy makes it easy to view a list of fuel prices across a city and view the location of each c-store with its […]
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- 12 Dec
The Alternative Fuels Data Center of the US Department of Energy tracks the number of public alternative fueling stations, and the location of each, on their site here. The page includes public (not private) stations for propane, biodiesel, ethanol, electric […]
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- 01 Oct
Ever since Valero reported in their most recent quarterly earnings that they would like to divest their retail stores, there has been all kinds of speculation around what that divestiture might look like. Recently Reuters released a story that several […]
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- 10 Sep
Customers always have insight beyond our own
- Sep 10, 2012
- John Keller
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When we build a new feature into our PriceAdvantage fuel pricing software, we always have a use case in mind. The use case includes two aspects: the persona, that is the primary business person who will take advantage of the […]
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- 27 Aug
BP has temporarily stopped distributing Premium and Midgrade gasoline to the Chicago area in order to further test the fuel from the Milwaukee terminal. Regular unleaded gasoline has already passed these quality tests and is in distribution to Northwest Indiana, […]
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- 21 Aug
A number of articles in the press are proclaiming that experts predict retail gasoline prices will drop after Labor Day. For example, in the Houston Chronicle, Tom Kloza, the chief oil analyst at OPIS is quoted as saying “I suspect […]
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- 21 Aug
Adjusting Gasoline Pricing Strategy
- Aug 21, 2012
- John Keller
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Today BP issued a public recall of 2.1 million gallons of gasoline produced by the BP Whiting refinery near the Indiana – Illinois border. Hundreds of reports of car trouble have flooded Northwest Indiana repair shops caused by contaminated gasoline […]
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- 17 Aug
California Gas Price Increases Expected to Stop
- Aug 17, 2012
- John Keller
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According to an article in the LA Times, the gasoline price increases caused by the Chevron Richmond refinery fire are likely to stop. A spokesman for the Automobile Club of Southern California was quoted as saying “It appears that wholesale […]
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