Fuel for America's transport needs

When groups such as OPEC try to predict the future demand for oil and petroleum products, one of the significant factors in that analysis ...

A VMT oddity and the latest TWIP

I have been writing about the use of the monthly reports from the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) on vehicle miles travels, at intermit...

September TWIP and July VMT

One of the metrics of the economy that serves as a marker to me on how we are doing relates to the use of vehicles, and as a consequence the...

TWIP for August 11th

Before the Deepwater Horizon incident I would follow the EIA weekly announcements known as This Week in Petroleum and occasionally comment ...

Gas demand, miles travelled and salt for the roads

It has been a while since we looked at the TWIP and natural gas pages of the EIA, so (in order to maintain the historic record) a quick tri...

Seasonality of Demand

Well, with Thanksgiving, and a slight problem in transportation that got us home a day late, it is belatedly time to catch up a little on th...

Gasoline demand, August driving and winter weather

Wednesdays are when the TWIP ( This Week in Petroleum ) is issued by the EIA. Today’s cover note deals with the relatively changing prices...

Gasoline consumption and today's TWIP

So how far has the recovery progressed? Not being one of the many financial gurus that have been peering over the bull’s entrails for the p...

Driving is picking up, but is that good?

Having effectively been away for a couple of weeks, as good a place to start as any, to catch back up with the current state of things, is ...

A quick look at gas and miles travelled

Having missed both This Week in Petroleum , and the monthly release of miles driven , I thought I would just pop these up. Partially because...