Energy traders do the same thing with unleaded futures based on inflated expectations of summer driving.
The spokesman said unleaded petrol and diesel supplies, which account for 95% of consumption, would be unaffected.
Several countries have raised petrol taxes, and now tax leaded petrol far more heavily than unleaded fuel.
Fuel Supplies CI, which stopped importing the fuel last week, is the only importer of super unleaded petrol.
Anyone caught selling a gallon of unleaded at an unseemly rate had better beware (and maybe hire some lawyers).
Super unleaded fuel will not be imported into Guernsey from the end of March, Fuel Supplies CI has announced.
There is no unleaded petrol available, no Toyota dealership and no recovery service.
He said it was necessary to stop supplies of super unleaded to ensure the work could be carried out safely.
Limited supplies of super unleaded petrol will be imported into Guernsey from the end of April, Fuel Supplies CI has announced.
The latest figures from Experian Catalist show that the average cost of a litre of unleaded was 138.99 pence on Tuesday.
Across the UK, unleaded petrol was up by 13.5 pence per litre to 121.7 pence this month - a record high.
One obvious example is the quick and relatively painless adoption of unleaded petrol, thanks to differential tax rates which discriminated against leaded petrol.
Currently the company is the only importer of super unleaded fuel.
Yesterday the average price of unleaded petrol was 132p a litre.
According to the website PetrolPrices.com, the lowest costs for fuel at forecourts in or close to Stornoway is 138.9p for unleaded petrol and 147.9p for diesel.
Like every new Continental, the new GT Coupe can run on both standard unleaded gasoline and sustainable bioethanol (up to E85) or any mix of the two.
The switch to Sunoco Green E15, the official fuel of NASCAR and a renewable, low-carbon power source, reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20% compared with unleaded gas.
According to Mr Wiek, the wholesale price of unleaded petrol has risen sharply on Europe's largest market, in Rotterdam during recent weeks, and now bears no relation to price movements in the market for crude oil anymore.
But it is, again, a false promise to make by any politician that they have a 3-point plan -- that a 3-point plan exists that can guarantee a certain price for unleaded gasoline at your local Exxon or Sunoco or Chevron station.
Yesterday, FEMA announced that the President directed the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to purchase up to 12 million gallons of unleaded fuel and up to 10 million gallons of diesel fuel for distribution in areas impacted by the storm to supplement ongoing private sector efforts.
The state of Nebraska has tracked gasoline and ethanol prices since 1982, and despite all the financial incentives for ethanol, the average annual price of ethanol had exceeded the price of gasoline in every single year on record through 2005. (See Ethanol and Unleaded Gasoline Average Rack Prices).
The second thing -- and this was announced late yesterday -- the Department of Defense through the Defense Logistics Agency authorized the purchase of 12 million gallons of unleaded fuel and 10 million gallons of diesel fuel that can be used to run generators -- been contracted -- the purchase of this fuel and the delivery of this fuel.
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