{"id":18110,"date":"2012-03-08T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=18110"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:19:07","slug":"gasoline-prices-and-crude-consumers-lose-but-companies-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/gasoline-prices-and-crude-consumers-lose-but-companies-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasoline Prices and Crude: Consumers Lose, But Companies Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the percent change in the price of oil and gasoline. It compares the pricing that you and I pay as to what is the price of the underlying commodity. As is expected, no matter what the price of oil is, there is a constant price that will be pushed onto the consumer. Now, as a consumer, I am not happy with that fact, but this is why there is investor excitement when it comes to the<!--more--> energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>There have some great investments in this sector, no doubt. But, if you are expecting that pump prices will come down anytime soon &#8211; think again. This is a perfect setup into the summertime pattern.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oilgasspread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12726\" title=\"oilgasspread\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/oilgasspread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the percent change in the price of oil and gasoline. It compares the pricing that you and I pay as to what is the price of the underlying commodity. As is expected, no matter what the price of oil is, there is a constant price that will be pushed onto the consumer. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-18110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-commodities","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}