>>>>>>Why is it that as soon as the price of oil goes up, it goes up at the pump immediately, supposedly because they forecast what it will cost them to replenish their stocks. But, when it goes down, as it did today, prices don't go down immediately as well since replenishing their stocks will cost less?
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>>>>>>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080929/oil_prices.html
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>>>>>What is the real mystery to me is;
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>>>>>How come petrol cost 1.10 EURO / Liter here, while you pay it $3.63 per galon there.
>>>>>That would be 4.4euros per gallon. (Is that 7$ already ?)
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>>>>>Is it that Europeans rafineries are just so inneficient that they cannot produce it any cheaper starting from
>>>>>crude price or there is something else involved here.
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>>>>Perhaps it is like any other product, buying in bulk? We import 70% of our oil. We do have some of our own energy (30% of our oil usage is our own and keep in mind we have other sources of energy - just NOT enough), but the amount of energy we produce and use ourselves is probably enough to supply some of Europe...
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>>>Okay , u/stood; You buy in bulk and get 120% discount {g}
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>>>Any link that support that discount theory?
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>>I don't know. I certainly could look and see. I was being facetious :o)
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>Any 'disconnection' between retail gasoline price in Europe and here is caused by VAT tax. When Euro-based refinery sells gas in Europe, tax is included, when gasoline exported to USA, it is not, i.e. company gets rebate, the same way as you may get a rebate for goods bought in Eurpoe in the airport when leaving Europe for USA.

Except the difference is more than 15%, isn't it?