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Market walks · Fuel · Edition of Oct 17, 2026

Fuel, from the barrel to the farm

Published Oct 17, 2026 · crude, diesel and gasoline side by side · prices through

Compared with the past

How this page decides what to show. Each fuel is compared with its own history over the window you pick. Readings below the 10th or above the 90th percentile are marked unusual. Inventories are seasonal, so each year is compared at the same week; the highest or lowest for that week in the window is marked unusual. The farm links show where fuel prices meet crops. The page puts readings side by side. It does not claim one causes another.

Sources. NYMEX WTI crude, NY Harbor ULSD (diesel), RBOB gasoline and Henry Hub natural gas front-month futures, and ICE Brent, via Yahoo Finance; CFTC Disaggregated Commitments of Traders; EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report (commercial crude, distillate and gasoline stocks, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, refinery utilization); EIA monthly biofuel feedstock; USDA WASDE; USDA NASS Fats & Oils crush; CBOT soybean oil and meal; ANP and CONAB via the SoftSignal sugar-ethanol parity read. Refinery margins here are a rough gauge from front-month futures (product × 42 minus WTI), not any refinery's actual margin. This edition is frozen: its numbers will not change after publication. Built with AI tools to gather and cross-check the data and draft the copy; every number and label was reviewed by a person before publication.

Data as of. NYMEX, ICE and CBOT settlements Oct 16, 2026 · CFTC positions Oct 13, 2026 · EIA weekly stocks and refinery runs week ending Oct 9, 2026 · USDA WASDE Oct 9, 2026 · NASS crush Aug 2026 · EIA biofuel feedstock Jun 2026 · Brazil cane mix Sep 2026.

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