74 Quotes by Peter Beutel

We're going to see huge price increases, particularly for Midwestern home owners this winter; and if it's a cold winter they will be really hurting. They are already looking at price increases of 40 to 80 percent.

We can debate what percentage of the profits should be plowed back into the company and what percentage belongs to the shareholders. Not being a shareholder, I'd prefer to see them err in the direction of spending a larger portion on refineries and new (oil and gas) fields and infrastructure.

U.S. refineries prefer a lighter grade of crude than OPEC can add right now. The big problem is the refining issue. Now with another storm threatening the Gulf, and the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning. We really don't need another storm near the producing areas at all.

U.S. refineries prefer a lighter grade of crude than OPEC can add right now, ... The big problem is the refining issue. Now with another storm threatening the Gulf, and the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning. We really don't need another storm near the producing areas at all.

We're still going to need to refine this oil into heating oil and gasoline before it really has an effect on us.

We'll be looking at it (Greenspan's speech) a lot more closely than we normally do, but I don't know if we'd ever look at it the same bond traders do. To them everything he says is gospel. It's only once every couple of years we even know what he's saying.

We did have some profit-taking early, but I think a lot of people that were caught behind the eight ball saw that as an opportunity to buy.

Yesterday's report showed draws across the board and for some reason it didn't take.

The only good news is that with margins like this, every refiner that can will ramp up output. There may be a long-term change because this storm has focused attention on the need for additional refineries. An aggressive company may agree to jump through the hoops to build the first new refinery in almost 30 years.