OPIS Insights

March 26, 2025
Ethanol, Gas & Diesel, Spot Market

Midwest Gasoline: New Specifications May Impact Pricing in Summer 2025

Stakeholders supplying gasoline for the 2025 summer driving season have encountered significant uncertainty in recent months over the Environmental Protection...

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January 26, 2024
Ethanol

US Ethanol Industry Explores Avenues for Expanding its Markets

While margins on fuel ethanol production through 2023 remained mostly positive and, by most accounts, were profitable for long stretches,...

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February 4, 2021
Biofuels, Ethanol, Renewables, RINs, Spot Market

2020 Energy Prices Complicated by Ag Products, Renewable Credits and Other Relationships

You need more than just a NYMEX or ICE futures’ screen to keep pace with petroleum prices, based on the...

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May 11, 2020
Ethanol, Renewables

Ethanol’s Unique COVID-19 Price Story

Drastically fewer miles are being driven due to stay-at-home measures to combat COVID-19, resulting in a decline in gasoline prices...

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March 16, 2020
Ethanol, Renewables

Can Ethanol Prices Rebound in 2020?

U.S. ethanol prices, after nearly a year-long funk, are indicating strength for 2020.

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September 23, 2019
Crude oil, Ethanol, Gas & Diesel, Spot Market

Beyond Saudi Attacks: 4 Other Oil, Gasoline & Diesel Price Factors to Fear in 2020

Much of the oil, gasoline and diesel price direction in 2020 markets may be determined by whether the Middle East...

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February 19, 2019
Carbon, Ethanol, Renewables

2019 Ethanol Price and Carbon Credit Market Preview

It was a tumultuous year in the renewable fuel and carbon credit markets. 

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