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Why U.S Gas Prices Will Continue to Rise Rapidly

User 168113, You are correct the ratio we used for oil barrels/gallons was 31 not 42. As you mentioned not all 42 gallons in a barrel are used to produce oil, so we calculated on average what percent of a barrel was used for fuel (this included diesel and may have been a mistake) However, if you did use 42 as the benchmark, the magnitude of the spread would be slightly less, and imply a gas price of around $3.50 vs $3.96 over the next couple of months, but since the entire barrel isn't used for gas production we did not feel this would be accurate. Important to note is that in either case there would be no change to the shape of the XOM price to GAS/WTI spread chart. Hope this helps!