This US retail gasoline sales chart clearly shows the economic decline

[old steel]

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Thousand Gallons per Day


U.S. Total Gasoline Retail Sales by Refiners
U.S. Total Gasoline Retail Sales by Refiners198419861988199019921994199619982000200220 0420062008201020122014020,00040,00060,00080,000Sou rce: U.S. Energy Information Administration



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U.S. Total Gasoline Retail Sales by Refiners (Thousand Gallons per Day)







Year
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec


1983
46,218.3
48,906.1
54,111.7
49,093.7
52,021.3
52,517.2
51,898.0
51,905.6
52,676.3
50,724.3
51,150.8
51,879.1


1984
54,148.6
55,651.7
57,636.0
56,937.0
58,755.9
60,075.0
59,055.7
59,378.3
56,947.3
57,386.5
58,075.3
56,765.8





1985
54,584.3
53,829.7
57,297.6
59,075.2
57,563.7
58,832.1
58,563.3
58,096.1
56,979.0
56,949.0
58,100.7
60,295.9


1986
55,283.0
58,546.4
61,250.4
62,628.9
65,578.7
63,294.1
62,861.8
61,342.4
60,341.9
60,946.1
61,880.4
62,290.2


1987
56,488.6
60,641.1
61,627.2
61,733.5
61,750.0
64,315.2
62,404.8
62,643.9
59,339.3
60,707.9
58,877.0
61,720.2


1988
57,041.0
59,900.3
61,577.5
61,584.1
60,701.3
62,884.1
61,873.2
62,450.0
61,036.1
60,385.3
59,783.1
63,099.8


1989
55,556.8
58,492.6
60,500.1
60,242.0
62,088.7
63,521.0
62,335.0
63,362.0
61,922.8
61,973.6
61,339.0
63,182.4





1990
58,138.0
57,909.4
59,847.0
59,600.5
60,572.2
63,108.6
61,531.0
63,182.0
60,912.1
60,295.1
60,550.6
58,382.1


1991
56,924.5
59,384.5
61,553.8
61,982.0
62,244.9
63,319.4
62,600.6
62,534.0
60,346.2
61,181.3
60,442.9
61,521.7


1992
56,410.9
58,308.6
59,639.5
59,980.2
59,615.2
60,353.3
60,400.3
59,083.7
58,579.1
59,011.8
56,877.6
59,287.9


1993
53,826.6
57,305.3
57,624.8
58,138.7
57,465.8
60,391.1
58,807.7
58,453.0
57,462.3
55,432.4
55,743.5
56,074.7


1994
51,533.7
54,270.1
55,363.8
54,962.1
55,523.0
57,165.3
55,834.5
56,393.4
54,992.9
54,240.5
54,480.4
55,612.3





1995
51,200.2
54,138.2
55,592.4
55,456.8
56,242.2
58,547.4
56,944.0
58,296.8
56,580.9
55,610.5
55,907.4
56,471.5


1996
53,039.9
54,566.8
56,388.2
57,183.4
57,796.4
59,170.9
58,909.8
59,651.5
57,845.3
58,456.2
58,101.4
59,200.7


1997
54,440.6
57,313.3
58,443.8
58,854.0
57,840.1
59,820.3
65,294.2
64,803.7
63,680.2
64,355.2
62,252.8
66,017.1


1998
59,905.7
62,399.8
64,533.5
59,012.3
59,509.7
60,837.0
67,183.3
66,831.0
65,146.9
65,121.8
63,846.8
65,401.5


1999
60,254.0
62,779.7
63,320.2
63,722.4
63,464.7
64,458.4
62,669.7
61,363.0
59,265.4
60,415.4
59,078.1
62,719.0





2000
54,421.0
59,107.2
60,573.0
57,911.6
60,300.4
63,275.5
62,278.2
63,621.8
63,098.0
61,954.7
62,184.7
62,014.2


2001
58,139.5
61,731.0
62,859.5
62,301.3
62,878.9
65,417.0
62,534.2
64,390.5
62,214.2
60,864.4
60,024.8
60,793.5


2002
60,211.7
63,942.2
62,828.5
63,953.3
64,537.0
64,874.0
64,594.2
66,683.5
62,352.4
63,344.8
63,255.8
63,109.4


2003
60,247.9
60,803.4
60,815.8
61,728.4
66,315.5
66,426.5
66,803.1
66,812.7
63,949.0
64,615.5
63,778.4
63,394.5


2004
57,143.8
58,381.7
59,186.2
59,352.6
58,565.7
58,992.8
59,012.0
59,664.1
57,327.4
57,977.1
57,017.9
58,013.6





2005
54,938.7
58,368.8
58,330.0
59,093.3
59,474.5
61,731.9
61,109.4
61,220.9
57,866.5
57,075.2
59,094.7
59,426.1


2006
56,531.8
59,960.4
59,859.7
61,020.8
60,234.0
61,980.4
61,445.8
62,015.9
59,783.4
60,233.2
58,860.2
57,862.5


2007
54,698.1
56,954.9
57,278.7
57,354.7
58,719.6
60,865.7
58,806.7
60,178.5
57,912.9
57,843.2
56,579.0
54,650.0


2008
53,994.1
56,157.4
55,494.8
56,307.4
56,390.6
55,938.5
54,802.5
55,628.2
53,405.9
55,210.7
54,080.6
53,931.5


2009
51,108.7
50,968.4
51,298.4
51,215.6
50,957.0
50,419.6
49,677.9
49,966.5
48,669.6
48,461.0
47,454.3
47,441.4





2010
44,012.3
44,227.1
45,482.4
46,234.2
46,016.2
46,765.3
45,755.3
45,082.6
43,876.0
43,624.1
42,857.0
42,417.1


2011
40,331.0
40,924.9
41,608.1
41,555.0
41,172.9
42,477.2
42,448.3
42,351.8
41,972.6
32,015.0
30,971.6
30,413.9


2012
28,389.9
29,546.8
29,496.5
29,684.0
30,292.5
31,458.8
30,970.7
31,923.9
30,562.6
28,505.3
28,132.8
27,763.9


2013
27,138.8
27,952.0
28,216.4
28,179.6
24,384.0
24,143.9
23,567.1
24,120.5
23,245.9
23,575.3





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[old steel]

According to this EIA chart, it looks like 30 years and counting since the US had this low fuel demand.

A. Average car on the road is 11 years old so don't tell me about fuel efficiency
B. Population immigration up roughly 10+ million in last 5 years

Conclusion: again nothing is real in this economy, no organic growth, zero demand, all propped up by printing, how much longer can this go on?

[Cebu_4_2]

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[Glass]

How are wholesale sales going. I would figure that USMIL would be using the majority of fuel anyway. Maybe they are taking up the slack.

[Hypertiger]

I can see it everywhere now...The yield starvation is massive at this point....

They have been doing massive stock buybacks to reduce supply in relation to demand to keep the markets rising...and the massive foreclosures in the US was to soak up supply to keep the going on 43 year old US real estate price bubble from popping.

5917

You can see the volume on the DOW is collapsing...but it still keeps rising since all the publicly traded companies have been buying back stocks to cut the supply in realtion to demand and using the stock on their balance sheets to produce good numbers.

You can also see in 1941 where when Germany was dumped or shorted to oblivion and the USA was bought like mad once the USA cut off the oil to Japan Germany and Italy...that lead to the beginning of the end of WW2...since the USA was almost 60% of the global supply of oil back then.

5918

They pulled the plug in 2006 during the normal seasonal decline...and no one realized anything was up until 2007 leading into the controlled demolition of Lehman's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_bank) the above chart shows the 1991 New world order real estate bubble...new home construction is the magic printing press...its the beginning of the multiplier effect in the US economy...It collapsed after 14 years of 11% exponential growth per year...because it ran out of people in the USA willing and able to sign on the dotted line to sustain it...and with the primary engine of the Bretton woods system...finished...The USA along with the rest of the global trade system has been collapsing since 2008.

5919

All the massive foreclosures were to keep the above price bubble from imploding...and it's back to where it was in 2008 now. That bubble above...represents the pre-existing real estate market...it is the next level up from new home construction as far as the multiplier effect of the credit system goes. It pops...and you will see the end of USA and the world...the problem is...there is no way for it to last much longer...it's a ticking time bomb...

[EE_]

According to this EIA chart, it looks like 30 years and counting since the US had this low fuel demand.

A. Average car on the road is 11 years old so don't tell me about fuel efficiency
B. Population immigration up roughly 10+ million in last 5 years

Conclusion: again nothing is real in this economy, no organic growth, zero demand, all propped up by printing, how much longer can this go on?

A lot of demand has left the country with industry, manufacturing and construction.
Because of all that leaving, the infrastructure in the US is only being maintained by patching it together, instead of building new. There's no money for anything else.
The new working poor are buying less, driving less, vacationing less and living with less.
As I said before, America is inevitablly adjusting to a lower standard of living.

[Neuro]

According to this EIA chart, it looks like 30 years and counting since the US had this low fuel demand.

A. Average car on the road is 11 years old so don't tell me about fuel efficiency
B. Population immigration up roughly 10+ million in last 5 years

Conclusion: again nothing is real in this economy, no organic growth, zero demand, all propped up by printing, how much longer can this go on?
That is the best evidence I have seen that the economic recovery is totally bogus, thank you! Basically a very small percentage of the money printed has trickled down to J6P, if any. It only went to enrich the bankers...

Kudos also to Hypertiger for writing something more than mere repetition of catchphrases rinsed and repeated into oblivion, that also makes sense...

[Neuro]

A lot of demand has left the country with industry, manufacturing and construction.
Because of all that leaving, the infrastructure in the US is only being maintained by patching it together instead of building new. There's no money for anything else.
The new working poor are buying less, driving less, vacationing less and living with less.
As I said before, America is inevitablly adjusting to a lower standard of living.
Could shopping malls be converted into mushroom farms?

[EE_]

Could shopping malls be converted into mushroom farms?

When the last time you've heard of a shopping mall being built in this country?
The one's that have closed, have already been converted to taco factories. I do like mushrooms though!

[mick silver]

there no way this could be true , i was told last night on the news that this is the best it been in a 100 years and more then 20 million jobs will be added and the wages will go to 25 an hour and we will all get are homes for free and if you dont want to work they will pay you just like you were working

[Hypertiger]

I'm not here to supply you with what you want...just with what you need...

You are vampires that take and take and take and give back nothing...That is why the USA is collapsing to oblivion...

Following the reasonable assumption of Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness or the worship of ignorance as bliss is leading you all to death, tyranny, and the pursuit of misery or the logical conclusion of the reasonable assumption.

5922

US Federal Government spending has been cut for years now...The public debt is rising due to interest charges only...Spending has been flat since 2009...and short by around 1 Trillion dollars.

5923

This shows that the FED has not been printing like mad and in fact...the credit system has been collapsing due to the collapse of the USA and the population of the USA as productive...the US economy is short around 15 Trillion dollars since 2008...The QE has only been to prop up the primary dealers/US banking system to keep yield rates from exploding upwards and killing you all in the blink of an eye now that you all are all basically net negative yielding or unfundable liabilities....Instead of nice and slow since 2008 to now....Most of the FED purchases or balance sheet inflations have been Treasuries from China...Since their economy has been collapsing as well since their primary engine the past 30 years has been the USA...It why the EU is collapsing...it's why the entire global system is collapsing.

The good old US of A has been plundered into the ground for centuries...The 1944 Bretton woods agreement basically cause the USA to blow off the past 7 decades like a supernova.

When the yield rates reach their maximum potential implosion after 32 years...basically the USA will turn into a black hole and everything you see now will begin rapidly returning back into thin air from were it came from...sucking all the inflation of the bubble the past 7 decades back to where it came from...into the singularity of the continuous compounding interest equation...imploding the world along with it.

The same physics at the core of a black hole that powers it is the same physics at the core of a black hole...both are absolute capitalistic...Both take more power than they give to sustain their continued existence.

The chaos you have seen to date is nothing compared to what you all are heading into...psychologically most of you will be annihilated.

Since you all are basically just think positive drones...like rabbits caught in the headlights of the cherished delusion of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness you are following...the light matter that is blinding you to the logical conclusion or dark invisible matter hiding behind the light visible matter...death, tyranny, and the pursuit of misery.

You all are dead people basically...and have no idea...like the people on the titanic waiting for a lifeboats....but in this real life science fiction horror show that is unfolding...you all do not even know the titanic hit the iceberg in 2008...you all still think the titanic is unsinkable...and there are no life boats...

I've been pointing this out since 1997...but it is amazing how powerful the just think positive religion is...

really I'm going to watch you all die in fits of exquisite agony which you all watch everything you live die in front of your eyes.

Do not think so?

Of course not...you all are ignorant of Truth...

You are mindless or absolute capitalists...like bacteria in a petri dish....that is what the USA is...and over the past few centuries you all have exponentially grown to the point where the doubling time or exponential growth has reached maximum potential and now the half life or exponential decay is taking over.

The entire USA is nothing but one huge welfare case...It's net negatively yielding...It's only been accounting tricks that have sustained you all...It's the only reason you are reading this...without all the behind the scenes engineering and manipulations...the world would have already imploded into a nightmare beyond your just think positive drone minds to fathom.

standard of living reduced?

you are going to be reduced to skeletons by the time the logical conclusion is reached.

There is not going to be enough left of the USA to fill an ashtray.

Of course this can all be traced back to 1944 and Bretton woods...that was the deal with the devil that was signed that bought the USA and world the greatest inflationary boom in all recorded history...that is turning into the bust that is going reap all your souls.

It's not my fault you spent your life worshiping ignorance (Satan) as bliss.

that is what the path that Satan, the eternal optimist, follows...Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness...it is a lie believed to be Truth that Satan can defeat GOD...and when Satan reaches the logical conclusion of the reasonable assumption...Satan finds death, tyranny and the pursuit of misery as the reward for worshiping ignorance as bliss.

you all have blown it big time...and do not even have a clue yet...You are looking at the people drowning as the Titanic sinks and are laughing and unaware that it's only a matter of time until you are drowning too...you all will be in the USA and world.

I'm a harbinger...

I can see what you all can't or refuse to...since you all worship lies and delusions...

like dogs and cats that lick up antifreeze because it tastes good...they also are following the path of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness...they are ignorant of Truth as well...The result is certain...There is no speculation required unless you choose to hope that there is going to be a miracle...until you reach the logical conclusion of the reasonable assumption of hope....and find death, tyranny and the pursuit of misery as you die in a fit of exquisite agony.

If you all think that pretending to be nice to me is going to save you...That is just a cherished delusion that is going to be shattered.

Trying to fool me ended decades ago when I became knowledgeable of Truth.

I do not require you to confess to me...Because I'm knowledgeable of Truth...I can see right through you all.

I annihilate lies and shatter delusions...there is no hiding from me...I can do for free what the NSA has spent 100's of billions of dollars over the past almost 100 years trying to do and failing.

Since I was born...because I was born impervious to the mind control you all were exposed to and are hapless victims of...You are in your matrix pods asleep dreaming you are awake...I'm awake in the nightmare world visiting you in your daydream world.

I sent this message from the future for you to read in the past which is your present from me to you.

It's not my fault you look up to leaders that have the minds of gnats to follow...

This is the Internet...You can not follow me.

Because I'm already where you all are headed waiting for you to arrive...At the logical conclusion of the reasonable assumption...the reasonable assumption being the lie you all are currently worshiping as Truth and cherish.

[old steel]

Then again....

"This isn't how much gasoline is being sold at pumps, it's how much gasoline is being sold to retailers from US refiners. This chart is telling you your refining capacity has moved out of the US.

This isn't a plot by Barry or the Illuminati it's basic economics.

First in 2008 trillions of dollars disappeared from the economy over night, until we come up with a vehicle to replace that kind of money creation there is alot less to go around which means lower needs for transportation.

More importantly is basic economics of the refinery business. Refining is a shit business, they make crap money and it's dangerous, difficult work. The amount of money they make by taking oil and processing into something else is called the crack spread, you can check it out on NYMEX.

The crack spread is shit aka refiners are making crap money so in order to have decent profit margins you need to go someplace where your inputs, like labor are much cheaper.

Gas has tremendous pressure to be cheap at the pump. Retailers, your gas station, make nothing on gas sales, they use it as a loss leader to get you into the store to sell you stuff like pepsi and chips which have vastly higher profit margins.

Refiners as indicated in this chart also make bullshit because of the tremendous pressure to keep the price low at the pump, as gasoline is indirectly included in the price of all other products due mostly to transportation of those products. Combine a limited ability to raise the price past X with a product that costs you 90% of X just to get it to your plant and you can see why they can't make money domestically and hence the move offshore.

Even O&G companies, the people getting it out of the ground, make very little money per unit. They make billions on the fact that they sell mother fuck tons of the shit. The Walmart approach if you will.

To put if very simply, oil is 250-3$ when it hits your refinery door, if you can only sell your finished product, gasoline at 3.45 you have almost no real way to make money, particularly if your a public company in which shareholders demand ever increasing profits and big profit to begin with.

The level of education or even basic knowledge on this site is appalling, then again a lack of basic education and bull shit wacko theory's probably go hand in hand.

Want to know something real and actually dangerous. There exists one working pipeline from GOM facilities to the EC. This pipeline is quite small and thus a hell of alot of gasoline must be transported via truck and ship. If a large nor-easter hit the EC at the right time and transport was delayed say a week you would see very very serious disruption in gasoline supplies."

[Hypertiger]

So they are lying about the Gasoline imports into the USA?

They have been dropping since 2006...back to year 2000 levels when the 1991 new home real estate boom began to collapse that caused the reverse of the multiplier effect...the domino effect that lead to the 2008 controlled demolition of Lehman's...

And yes It's not a plot by Obama...because the only way that it's possible to believe that Obama is some kind of evil mastermind that is running the show...Is if you have the mentality of a child that reads comic books.

But it is you that has a lack of basic knowledge or you are getting your information from a fantasy source...

If a barrel of oil is hitting the floor at 250 to 300 Dollars...Then all the gasoline in the USA is being sold at a massive loss and all the refiners should be out of business....Since the current wholesale price of gasoline is around $2.64 per gallon.

21.42 gallons of a barrel of crude can be turned into gasoline...at $250 Dollars a barrel that works out to $127.5 of crude oil.

$2.64 x 21.42 gallons = $56.55 - $127.50 = -70.95 loss per barrel.

That works out to a loss per day of around -1,316,122,500

I do not think that is what is going on...

its a combination of more fuel efficient vehicles and less driving by poorer people along with the implosion of the 1991 to 2006 new home construction boom in the USA

[Neuro]

And yes It's not a plot by Obama...because the only way that it's possible to believe that Obama is some kind of evil mastermind that is running the show...Is if you have the mentality of a child that reads comic books.

But it is you that has a lack of basic knowledge or you are getting your information from a fantasy source...
Nice one, create a conspiracy theory and ridicule us for subscribing to it in the same sentence. Thank you hypertiger for supplying us with what we need, you are very sun-like!

[Horn]

I do not think that is what is going on...

its a combination of more fuel efficient vehicles and less driving by poorer people along with the implosion of the 1991 to 2006 new home construction boom in the USA

China makes up for the demand loss in the U.S., a drop that quick has nothing to do with the refining business, or fuel efficiency though.

Yes, correct, poorer people, and economy bust.