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- 24 Aug
According to the AAA/IHS Global Insight 2012 Labor Day Holiday Travel Forecast, there will be 2.9% more people traveling 50 miles or more from home during the Labor Day weekend this year than last year. The Labor Day holiday is […]
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- 22 Aug
Parker’s Makes List of Fastest Growing Companies
- Aug 22, 2012
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Congratulations to Parker’s for being recognized as one of the country’s Fastest Growing Companies according to Inc. Magazine. Earlier this year the Parker’s President and CEO Greg Parker was named “C-Store Innovator of the Year” by The Griffin Report. Parker’s […]
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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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- 16 Aug
In the Q3 financial release from The Pantry, the CEO included a statement regarding how the c-store chain plans to improve their retail fuel margins and volumes. From the press release: “The company is implementing a fuel-pricing technology that will […]
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- 15 Aug
US EIA Predictions
- Aug 15, 2012
- John Keller
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US EIA predicts 2012 retail gasoline prices to match 2011 prices In the US Energy Information Administration Short-term Energy Outlook report for August, the agency predicts 2012 retail regular unleaded gasoline prices to match 2011 prices of $3.53 per gallon. […]
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- 14 Aug
Valero Pushes Prices to OpenStore
- Aug 14, 2012
- John Keller
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Valero Corner Store extends gasoline pricing strategy to GasBuddy. Valero Corner Stores is the second PriceAdvantage customer to extend their gasoline pricing strategy to the web via GasBuddy OpenStore. Rutter’s Farm Stores is also using GasBuddy OpenStore to publish their […]
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- 13 Aug
US EIA Reporting
- Aug 13, 2012
- John Keller
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US EIA reports a $0.076 fuel price increase from last week. In today’s Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update, the US EIA reported regular unleaded retail fuel prices across the US increased for the 6th consecutive week, this time by $0.076 […]
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- 13 Aug
US EIA Reportings
- Aug 13, 2012
- John Keller
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US EIA reports gasoline fuel consumption increases in April and May over 2011. In the US Energy Information Administration report “Today in Energy” dated August 13, 2012, the US EIA reported gasoline consumption was up slightly in April and May […]
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