Mainline U.S. Media Ignores Connection between Gasoline Prices and Exports. Why?16 Jul

The mainline U.S. media cites several alleged reasons for increasing gasoline prices, including refinery outages, increased summer driving, tension in the Middle East, etc. Recent news headlines below provide more detail about gasoline price hikes except for U.S. gasoline exports. The graph below shows that gasoline exports have increased by nearly a factor of 3 from 2000 to the present.

Why is the mainline U.S. media ignoring this factor? Avoid public anger? Fear of annoying oil companies?

GASOLINE PRICE HIKE HEADLINES

Rising gas prices lift consumer inflation in June

Reuters, July 16, 2013

Sharp increase in gas prices limit drivers

NBC 40.net, July 15, 20

Gas Prices Up 15 Cents a Gallon in a Week

ABC NEWS, July 16, 2013

Oil down slightly; gasoline highest since June 2010

CBS Money Watch, July 16, 2013

Why gas prices are likely to keep climbing

CNN Money, July 18, 2013

 

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About Dr. Everson

Prior to forming this autonomous vehicle consultant practice, Dr. Jeffrey Everson was director of business development for QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group (previously Foster-Miller, Inc.).

Dr. Everson has been the principal investigator for collision warning systems for automobiles and inner-city transit buses. These programs were awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). For his work on developing a collision warning system for inner-city transit buses, Everson was the first U.S. Department of Transportation contractor to win an SBIR Tibbetts Award.

Previously Dr. Everson held senior scientist positions at Battelle Memorial Institute, The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Honeywell Electro Optics Systems Division, and Itek Optical Systems Division.

He holds a PhD in physics from Boston College and a MS/BS in physics from Northeastern University.

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