Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: U.S. Gasoline Consumption Plummets By Nearly 75%

 
 
Wow
 
Regular readers are familiar with my narratives on the U.S. Greater Depression, and (in particular) some of the government's own charts which depict this economic meltdown most vividly. The collapse in the "civilian participation rate" (the number of people working in the economy) and the "velocity of money" (the heartbeat of the economy) indicate an economy which is not merely in decline, but rather is being sucked downward in a terminal (and accelerating) death-spiral.
 
However, even that previously published data, and the grim analyses which accompanied it could not prepare me for the horror story contained in data passed along by an alert reader. U.S. "gasoline consumption" - as measured by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) itself - has plummeted by nearly 75%, from its all-time peak in July of 1998. A near-75% collapse in U.S. gasoline consumption has occurred in little more than 15 years.
 
Before getting into an analysis of the repercussions of this data, however, it's necessary to properly qualify the data. Obviously, even in the most-nightmarish economic Armageddon, a (relatively short-term) 75% collapse in gasoline consumption is simply not possible. Unless we were dealing with a nation whose economy had been suddenly ripped apart by civil war, or some small nation devastated by a massive earthquake or tsunami; it's simply not possible for any economy to just disintegrate that rapidly, without there being some ultra-powerful exogenous force also at work.
 
Arrivo degli allieni?
 
This is what we see today in the U.S.: a gasoline market which had been deliberately-and-dramatically over-supplied with gasoline at the wholesale end of the supply-chain (the refineries) has now practically ground to a halt. The same nation which previously amazed the world as it accumulated more automobiles and more miles of highways per capita than any nation on Earth (and by a huge margin) now has such an insane glut of gasoline that it's massive chain of refineries have had to simply turn off the taps - until this pathetically anemic economy manages to burn-off some of that glut.
 
This conclusion becomes even more visible/obvious when we view the gasoline data just from the start of the mythical "U.S. economic recovery" to the present. At the start of the "U.S. recovery"; U.S. gasoline consumption was at a rate of 52 million gallons per day (already more than 20% below the 1998 all-time peak). In the five years since the start of this pretend-recovery; U.S. gasoline consumption has fallen all the way to 18 million gallons per day.
 
Since the beginning of "the U.S. economic recovery"; U.S. gasoline consumption has plummeted by nearly 2/3. As the pseudo-recovery began, and supposedly "strengthened"; U.S. refineries were ordered to fill up the inventories of their dealer network, in anticipation of the increased gasoline consumption which would have occurred in any real "recovery".
 
Fa pensare vero?
 
Che sia la ripresa che non c'e?
 
 

 Che sia la ripresa che non c'e?
 
E' pi� probabilmente che sia la conseguenza di un sistema pi� efficiente.
 
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filantropico"
J.Steinbeck - L'inverno del nostro scontento
 

 
A si ?
 
Nuovi motori sui SUV e Pickup 6000 cc?
 
Per favore svegliati.

 Per favore svegliati.
 
Tu si che sei uno sveglio.
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Tu invece credi in babbo Natale, il Fraking, la guerra al terrorismo.
 
Spiegaci questo miracoloso - 75% thanks.
 

 Tu invece credi in babbo Natale, il Fraking
 
"Fraking"? La tendenza ad indossare compulsivamente abiti da cerimonia?

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No, mom ami'
 
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Ma dài? Allora non è che ci fai.

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Clicca bene molto interessante e artistico.

 Spiegaci questo miracoloso - 75% thanks.
 
Facile, � una bufala.
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Non tanto facile, documenta.

 Non tanto facile, documenta.
 
Io i dati veri li conosco. Ma visto che i dati li hai presentati tu ti 
lascio l'onore della prova.
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Devo mettermi a ridere? 
 

 Devo mettermi a ridere?
 
Fai come vuoi, peggio di cos� non ti pu� andare.
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Solo balle e niente sostanza, conosciamo.

 Solo balle e niente sostanza, conosciamo.
 
Intanto sei tu che mandi in giro dati scemi senza verificarli. Eppure ti 
basterebbe un controllo semplice semplice.
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Guarda io li ho trovati in rete, se trovi dati migliori non fai altro che postarli.
 
Te ne saremo grati.

 Te ne saremo grati.
 
Dal sito EIA (lo stesso citato dall'articolo che hai postato):
 
1998   8,2 milioni di barili per giorno (344 milioni di galloni)
2007   9,2 milioni di barili per giorno (386 milioni di galloni)  + 12% vs. 
1998
2013   8,8 milioni di barili per giorno (369 milioni di galloni)  + 7,3% vs 
1998
 
L'autore del tuo articolo scrive:
 
1998       65 Milioni di galloni per giorno
2010(?)   52 Milioni di galloni per giorno  -20% vs. 1998
2013       18 Milioni di galloni per giorno  -74% vs. 1998
 
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dhcmrlchtdj
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Ceci n'est pas une pipe (Magritte, La Trahison des images, 1929 ) 
 

 
 
Bel lavoro hai sputtanato Zero Hedge.
 
Adesso bisogna reindagare. Purtroppo questa e' la rete.