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Market Close: Aug 03 Down

Fueling Strategy: Please partial fill ONLY tonight, Wednesday prices will fall 6 cents then another penny Thursday ~ Be Safe!
NYMEX Crude    $ 70.56 DN $.7000
NYMEX ULSD     $2.1264 DN $.0094
NYMEX Gas       $2.2708 DN $.0039
NEWS
Oil declined for a second day as the spread of Covid-19’s delta variant in China threatened to disrupt the recovery in global crude consumption. West Texas Intermediate futures ended Tuesday’s session down 1% at the lowest closing price in almost two weeks. Nearly half of China’s 32 provinces have been gripped by the latest outbreak in Asia’s largest oil market, with 5% of worldwide short-term oil demand potentially at risk, according to calculations by China National Petroleum Corp. The price drop was tempered somewhat by a rally in equities trading and the “potential hijack” of a ship in the Gulf of Oman.

“China demand concerns because of the renewed restrictions from the viral spread were what caused the earlier weakness,” said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., crude stockpiles fell 879,000 barrels last week and gasoline supplies dropped by 5.75 million barrels, according to people familiar with the industry-funded American Petroleum Institute’s inventory data on Tuesday. Crude rallied strongly in the first half of the year as the roll out of vaccines allowed major economies to reopen, boosting oil demand and draining the glut built up during initial waves of the pandemic. However, the fast-spreading delta variant has led to renewed restrictions in many countries. “Asia-Pacific is currently the focal point of lock downs,” said Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc. “There are 887 million people worldwide are currently in lock down, which is more than at the beginning of 2021, and 85% of them are in Asia-Pacific.”

Crude’s decline also put the U.S. benchmark under technical pressure. WTI fell below its 50-day moving average and is edging closer to its 100-day moving average. Such moves can often spark additional selling from trend-following funds.

The API also reported U.S. distillate inventories fell 717,000 barrels last week and supplies at the Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub rose by 659,000 barrels. The U.S. government will report its stockpile data on Wednesday.

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Loren R Bailey, President
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loren: Fuel Manager Services Inc. "Serving the trucking industry since 1992" I've been in and around the trucking industry for 45-years beginning in owner operator operations at Willis Shaw Express. I bought a small trucking company that I ran for 6-years then sold and went to work for J.B. Hunt Transport in 1982. After 10-years with Hunt, I started Fuel Manager Services, Inc., we are in our 29th year of serving the American trucking companies. Our simple goal was and is to bridge the gap between the trucking companies and the fuel suppliers.