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DJN: China importing lowest amount of oil in 22 months

GasBuddy Blog -- The Dow Jones Newswires this morning have an interesting story about Chinese oil imports, a story that should be digested by the oil trading community. DJN is reporting "China's crude-oil imports fell to a 22-month low in August as its economy slowed and refiners, facing weaker demand and steeper losses, cut throughput targets."

Weaker Chinese demand is significant, because coupled with weaker U.S. demand as we head into cooler weather, there could be an increase of inventories. Not only is cooler weather going to reduce seasonal demand in the U.S., but the highest gasoline prices ever for this time of year certainly won't spawn a sudden uptick in drivers.

While oil demand may remain weak, it could boost margins at U.S...

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Submitted Sep 10, 2012 By: PD

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WGW1 Champion Author British Columbia Posts:1,252 Points:391,190 Joined:Jun 2010	Message Posted: Sep 26, 2012 12:15:45 PM Ignore WGW1 Report Abuse the wondrous web that oil weaves.
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pricewar Champion Author Ogden Posts:1,945 Points:275,215 Joined:Jul 2012	Message Posted: Sep 21, 2012 12:32:26 AM Ignore pricewar Report Abuse dream dream dream, we heard that song before. if its not china, who will it be next year? hey, my friend Moderator, how much oil do we really buy from china? will that 2 year (short by two months) really make a difference at the pump. give us some numbers. some real facts. not a teaser for hope... lets get real! Now lets not get too gassy my friends.
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tomok Champion Author Portland Posts:33,047 Points:2,346,485 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Sep 11, 2012 6:12:22 AM Ignore tomok Report Abuse China importing lowest amount of oil in 22 months? Less demand on world oil suppliers, cheaper world crude oil prices, so cheaper prices at the pump??? The Chinese economy has been affected adversely and their growth has slowed along with everyone else? Welcome to the club! Is 22 months the time for the world recession to reach China? Like cheaper prices at the pump is going to happen with Big Oil and Chuck around! Big Oil will maintain their profit and there is nothing anybody can say or do anything about it. 'Coming out of the closet' Chuck's economy is not improving but continues to hurt the population and the job numbers continue to be down – no matter how smoooooth talking Chuck spins those numbers and he can spin them very well! People will still drive and buy fuel no matter what but it sure helps to have a job also! Whatever the size or shape of the vehicle, Produce and ‘Drive’ vehicles with high MPG, are very safe, reliable, has a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money. The price of fuel at the pump is too high! 12/22/2012!
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