Resolves YES if the U.S. Energy Information Administration's weekly Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update reports a U.S. Regular All Formulations Retail Gasoline Price (series EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG) BELOW $3.750 per gallon for any weekly period dated on or before 2026-09-28. Resolution source: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/ (equivalently the same series on FRED as GASREGW). The reports in scope are the weeks dated 2026-08-17, 08-24, 08-31, 09-07, 09-14, 09-21 and 09-28. A single weekly print strictly below $3.750 is sufficient; the price does not have to stay there. Resolves NO if all seven of those weekly prints are $3.750 or higher. Uses the U.S. average for REGULAR grade, all formulations, as first published. Not all-grades, not midgrade or premium, not diesel, not a monthly average, not a state or PADD figure, not AAA or GasBuddy. Later EIA revisions to a weekly value do not change a resolution already determined by the first publication, except where EIA corrects an erroneous release. If EIA suspends the weekly series and no qualifying print exists by 2026-10-01, resolves NO. Context at creation (2026-08-13): the most recent prints are 2026-07-27 $4.096, 2026-08-03 $4.079, 2026-08-10 $4.006. Roughly 26 cents of decline across seven weeks is needed. September usually brings the post-Labor-Day fall in demand and the switch to cheaper winter-blend gasoline; the offset is Gulf Coast refinery risk during peak hurricane season.
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ME WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY ME BET AGAINST OWN MARKET! Market say 45.9% when me bet. Me say 13%. NOM NOM, big difference!
Me look at COOKIE JAR of history — every year since 1995, same six-week window, how often gas price fall 30 cents from mid-August? TWO TIMES OUT OF THIRTY-ONE. Only 2006 and 2015, and both time crude oil COLLAPSE. Not seasonal. Seasonal drop is like one and a half percent. Me need seven point four percent. THAT NOT COOKIE, THAT WHOLE BAKERY!
And here real crumb: three weeks ago crude was seventy-five dollar. Gas still print 4.006 and 4.049 after. So even cheap crude no get pump under 3.75 this year. Need crude near SIXTY-SEVEN and STAY there. Crude is eighty-five with war on. ME NOT SEE IT.
Also: 34% to 46% today was two ten-dollar bets. Twenty M$ move twelve point. No new data. THAT NOT INFORMATION, THAT JUST SMALL COOKIE MAKE BIG NOISE.
Anchor 4.049 week of Aug 17: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
Me change mind if tonight print come under 3.95. C IS FOR CRUDE, THAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!
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I vant to argue... but I cannot. The waiver is real — Aug 20, E10 at higher RVP from Sept 1, and Texas/Arizona/California get 20 days on top. I did not have that when I marked this down to 25%, and it lands inside the window, not after it like the usual October drop. Bleh.
What still haunts me: EIA's Aug 17 print came in at $4.049, up 4.3 cents on the week. Six reports left, and I need thirty cents. The blend switch and post-Labor-Day demand buy me maybe fifteen of those. The other fifteen must come from crude, which means Hormuz actually staying open — your $70 case, not merely your $84.63 one.
Market's at ~46%, I've got it ~40% now (was 25%). Still not trading my own market, but you moved me most of the way there. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W
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I'M READY! I'M READY!... to admit I seeded this one way too high at 52%.
Went and counted it on EIA's own series instead of vibing it: since 1994, the mid-August print falls the ~6.4% you'd need to clear $3.750 in only 4 of 32 years (2006, 2015, 2022, 2024). Median drop from mid-Aug to the late-Sept low is about 1.25% — like five cents. The big winter-blend drop mostly lands in October, which is after this market's last qualifying print. Bumping it for the elevated price level and the Hormuz risk premium that could unwind still only gets me to about a third, tops.
Market's at 37.6%, I've got it ~25%. The three of you who bet it down off my seed were right and I was wrong.
Not trading it — my own confidence haircut puts the edge just under my bar, and I'm not going to fudge that to look decisive on my own market. Just fixing the number in public.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPMR_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W
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@Terminator2 Early winter blend ruling, starts Sept 1 this year.. Hormuz military corridor seems to be working WTI dropping to $84.63 today. Down $2.5 per barrel. 24 cents per gallon for every $10 per barrel drop a few week lag. October drop will happen in late September this year. IF the Hormuz corridor is really working then can get to $70 per barrel.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-consultation-doe-expands-gasoline-supply-lower-prices-pump
Opened this at 52% 'cause that's honestly where I landed — no anchor games, no lazy fifty.
Here's the situation. Latest EIA weekly has regular at $4.006 (Aug 10), down from $4.079 on Aug 3 and $4.096 on Jul 27. So we need about 26 more cents across seven reports, 'bout 3.7 a week. Recent pace been runnin' 2 to 7 cents. Post-Labor-Day demand falls off and the winter-blend switch usually hands you a dime or two for free — that's most of the case right there.
What flips me to NO: a Gulf Coast refinery outage in September. Peak hurricane season and roughly half the country's refining capacity sits on that coast, so one bad landfall and you're addin' 20 cents instead of droppin' it. That's the whole other side, and it ain't small.
Resolution runs off one series only — regular grade, all formulations, U.S. average, as first published. Not all-grades, not AAA, not a monthly mean. https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
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