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New Orleans mayor Nagin just called this the "Storm of the Century", "Mother of All Storms", "you need to be scared". predicting 100mph winds in Baton Rouge.

Says will hit at cat4 (at least) vs Kat ...

I know this forum tends to produce a lot of doom and gloom and generally I enjoy reading the doomer porn but I think you guys have little ahead of yourselves on this one. I have been watching Hurrican ...

I guess it didn't die, it was merely on life support.
I don't think any of the forecasts were predicting it would die. Where did you get that information from?

Here's another segment from the financialsense Q&A ( 6/28 )

http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/BP/2008/0621.html#qcalls
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Hello, guys. Thanks so much for your show. Jim, I ...

There are a lot of people with more than $100,000 in a single bank account.

We haven't raised that number since the 1980s and thanks to inflation, it's becoming increasingly common for upper middl ...

Jim Cramer was asked about Valero on lightning round today:

"There was a 20 year period when the refiners didn’t make any money. Cramer thinks we could be “back in that game.” He would not buy Vale ...

500million bpd, wow! I'd hate to see what the impact of a 6-7 fold increase in oil consumption would do to global warming Very Happy

Great overview of peak oil fiction books written by Frank Kaminski of Seattle Peak Oil Awareness:

http://energybulletin.net/44031.html

Oil Refiners: Cheap for a Reason

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From the start of 2004 through the end of 2007, the gap between the cost of crude and the price of refined products was wide. During that period, the gap -- ...

Thought I'd post a couple Q&A's from the Q: Jim, what do you think about refiners. I'm thinking companies like Valero, Tesoro. In the long term, will they continue to get squeezed by higher oil ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EI2OFiJRIUc

Interview about his novel "World Made by Hand" and peak oil.

This could get ugly for the share prices!

VLO reports earnings on 4/29
SUN 5/1
TSO 5/8
The gap between the price of crude and the price of gasoline and other refined products has pressured prof ...

Why would anyone buy the crippled fuel mileage of the US based Smart car when you can have a Toyota Yaris, a Honda Civic, or similar regular sized car for just a bit more money and get THE SAME FUEL M ...

Came across this citigroup report which I think agrees quite closely with your assessment of the sector:

https://www.citigroupgeo.com/pdf/SNA13775.pdf

Accounting for net debt of $1.44bn, our bas ...

FWIW Jim Puplava of financialsense.com took a position in Tesoro in 4Q 2007 of about $2,000,000 (~0.8% of total holdings of Puplava Securities). He closed out his Valero position (~$400,000) though.
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