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Looking Only at Crude Prices Misses Fuel Costs: IEA Highlights Refined Product Bottlenecks and Corporate Procurement Choices
The IEA's September oil market data shows that crude oil, refined products, inventories, and exports send different signals. It connects product-specific pricing and supply certainty to choices in contracts, inventories, and cash flow.

While it is familiar to explain that rising international oil prices drive up transportation and production costs together, businesses actually purchase diesel, jet fuel, and various petroleum products rather than crude oil itself.…
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