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westexas on June 15, 2006 - 8:39pm

Note that China is drastically curtailing its gasoline exports, because of exploding domestic demand. Chinese car sales are up more than 50% year over year.

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bradshaw on June 15, 2006 - 9:02pm

I read that today too. Should be interesting as more exporters cut back and keep it for domestic use.

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JN2 on June 16, 2006 - 5:54am

IIRC, China is also reducing its subsidies so increasing the likelihood of producers wanting to sell locally. Fuel is so highly subsidized in Iraq, for example, that smugglers make a mint buying it cheap locally and selling it outside the borders...

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