Gasoline Demand Rising Despite High Prices

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By BRAD FOSS, AP Business Writer

WASHINGTON - Despite near record-high gasoline prices, U.S. motorists continue to increase consumption and, with supplies tight, that is helping to keep fuel costs propped up.

The Energy Department reported Monday that nationwide retail gasoline prices averaged $1.72 per gallon last week. Meanwhile, the price of oil surged to $37.44 per barrel on futures markets, the highest level in more than a year, in part because of the rising cost of motor fuel.

"Gasoline demand has been pretty spectacular of late," said Tom Kloza, director of Oil Price Information Service, a Lakewood, N.J., publisher of industry data.

The most recent statistics from the Department of Energy (news - web sites) show that gasoline demand has been roughly 3.7 percent higher than last year over the past four weeks. At the same time, nationwide supplies of gasoline are 1.2 percent below year ago levels at 220.4 million barrels, and 5 percent below the 5-year average.
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1. people with their hummers and SUVs

a**holes

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3. And the greedy un-American companies that make them.

I refuse to buy another American car after Ford, etc. refused to make a serious attempt to make fuel efficient vehicles. These companies have harmed the country with their short-sighted greed.

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2. Is this a duplicate thread???

...looks like it.

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4. Harvard University Introduces Bio diesel Fleet

The Harvard campus got a little greener last week, and it has nothing to do with the coming of spring. Rather, the University's Transportation Services opened its own bio diesel filling station in Allston, allowing Harvard's 25 diesel vehicles - shuttle buses, maintenance and mail trucks, and dining services' vehicles - to run on cleaner-burning bio diesel. Harvard is the first Ivy League school to use bio diesel as the primary fuel for its entire diesel fleet.

The new on-site filling station, located at Transportation Services' facility at 175 North Harvard St. in Allston, boasts an above-ground tank with state-of-the-art electronic dispensing and extensive safety features that holds 2,000 gallons of B20 bio diesel, a mixture of 20 percent soybean oil and 80 percent diesel.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.04/07-biodiesel.html

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