Typical Short-term Corporate Thinking Enhances Gas Pain
May 23, 2008 by Miki Saxon
Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: JOE M500
I have gas pains, you have gas pains and so we rant.
Rants don’t alleviate gas pain, but they do relieve pressure.
We rant about crude prices and the mean oil producing countries that are more concerned with their own internal economy than with being nice and increasing production.
We rant about the oil companies and accuse them of manipulating prices.
Not that our rants aren’t mostly true, but…
There is something else going on.
Alkylate—or the lack of it.
‘The alkylate shortage has become the most important driver of summer gas prices, said Doug Leggate, an analyst at Citigroup …read more