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  • In fuel refining circles there’s a phrase that gets thrown around quite a bit: crack spread. “The crack spread is the difference between the petroleum product price, such as diesel or gasoline, and crude oil prices,” said Jeff Barron, an economist at the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

    U.S. oil refiners' margins smash records, but few plan to build more plants Andy Uhler 2022

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  • definition from InvestorWords.com: A commodity-product spread involving the purchase of crude oil futures and the sale of gasoline and heating oil futures.

    May 7, 2008

  • *looking away*

    May 7, 2008

  • *trying desperately to think of the San Andreas Fault...and nothing else*

    May 7, 2008