Better Fill up today

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Cat, it is going higher, crude is trading at $105.70, up $1.57 this morning.

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CLEAN TECH
EV sales tracker: New record set in June; 1H13 total up 130%. U.S. sales of electric vehicles set a record in June, reaching 8,742
vehicles. (As always, our definition of EVs comprises both all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.) As the Electric Drive
Transportation Association reported earlier this week, sales increased 13% sequentially and 163% y/y. The previous monthly record, 7,754 vehicles, was set in May. In 2012, sales totaled 52,835, an increase of 198%, and equating to market share of 0.4%. Our projections are for sales of 109,000 in 2013 (up 105%) and 190,000 in 2014 (up 75%). In the first half of 2013, sales totaled 41,047, up 130% y/y.

This is good news, I see there are more Windfarms on the drawing boards as well, with improved gas mileage, more Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, more Solar Power and increased Windpower we are improving the atmosphere everyday, hopefully it is not to late to clean it up. In addition all of the aforementioned power sources help to reduce our dependence on Foreign oil.

[redcliffsw]

You're right in there in agreement with Al Gore and Obama. 

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You're right in there in agreement with Al Gore and Obama. 

Red you are right in there with Adolph and Benito if it was up to you we would be dependent on OPEC forever, and completely destroy the atmosphere along with it.

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Crude oil settled at $106.52, up $2.99 on the day.

[srkruzich]

This would be good news if it weren't paid for by tax dollars.  Why can't industry do it on their nickle?   OH i know its too expensive without subsidy.   The public would  never accept it nor will they accept it if the true costs are revealed.

8742 cars out of 67 million cars sold this year (Used cars that is)  Thats a real dent in the bucket!   Sadly the tech is not close to being useable in the near future.   Too darned expensive.  Unless they can reduce the cost without subsidy, it won't go anywhere, and unless the technology can deliver 1000 mile ranges, it won't be anything more than a local town car.  we'll still use petroleum to go cross country and whats the point of having to buy 2 vehicles one for local and one for long distance.  Makes no fiscal sense whatsoever.
What needs to be done is for the gooberment to get out of regulation of the industries and let the cost go down.  I looked up Nat gas for vehicles and it is absolutely cost prohibitive to even retrofit any vehicle. You would NEVER recoup the cost in any gas savings.  Thats a shame and a crime in itself.  Why not lower the cost of the conversion to less than 1000 dollars instead of 12,000 dollars and you'd see two things.  a increase in sales and conversions and a decrease in pollution.
I'll tell ya what i would love to see is someone come up with a way to capture the energy from the atmosphere, to utilize as a electric source, then take all of that research and plans and tech developed and make it public domain with no patent on it and give it to the world. Then take and start producing units  to do the conversion from our existing electric grid to self contained units and sell them for a small fee over cost.  they would be very rich in the end and prohibit anyone from siezing the tech and making it unavailable through high prices.   The lower price would control the rest and make them all produce it at a low cost. 

CLEAN TECH
EV sales tracker: New record set in June; 1H13 total up 130%. U.S. sales of electric vehicles set a record in June, reaching 8,742
vehicles. (As always, our definition of EVs comprises both all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.) As the Electric Drive
Transportation Association reported earlier this week, sales increased 13% sequentially and 163% y/y. The previous monthly record, 7,754 vehicles, was set in May. In 2012, sales totaled 52,835, an increase of 198%, and equating to market share of 0.4%. Our projections are for sales of 109,000 in 2013 (up 105%) and 190,000 in 2014 (up 75%). In the first half of 2013, sales totaled 41,047, up 130% y/y.

This is good news, I see there are more Windfarms on the drawing boards as well, with improved gas mileage, more Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, more Solar Power and increased Windpower we are improving the atmosphere everyday, hopefully it is not to late to clean it up. In addition all of the aforementioned power sources help to reduce our dependence on Foreign oil.

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Crude oil is trading over $107.00 this morning. Crude oil inventories come out tomorrow and they are being called lower. In addition the Egyptian civil unrest is threatening more and could really cause crude oil to go much higher.

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Crude oil has traded as high as $108.04 this morning, it is currently at $107.82 up $1.34 on the day.  The contract volume is low.

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Crude oil is trading at $109.11, up $1.07 this morning. If the Northern Leg of the Keystone Pipeline were finished crude would drop as much as $40.00 a barrel fast.

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Weekly natural gas storage recap (neutral): The EIA reported an injection of 58 Bcf, below both the Raymond James forecast of an
injection of 68 Bcf and the consensus estimate of 65 Bcf. Gas-in-storage now totals 2,745 Bcf, and the y/y storage deficit of 443 Bcf decreased by 29 to a deficit of 414 Bcf. Excluding weather-related demand, there was 3.1 Bcf/d of additional natural gas added to
storage this week compared to last year, and we have averaged 4.08 Bcf/d looser over the past four weeks.

Their continues to be an increased usage of Natural Gas In Power Plants verses Coal and Fuel Oil. In addition more and more vehicles are being converted to clean Burning and cheap Natural gas.  Many of the operators in West Texas that I deal with and have dealt with have converted their field vehicles to Natural Gas, their are Fillup connections at Gas plants all over West Texas.