Texas freeze pushes U.S. gasoline prices higher

Texas oil refineries shut by cold-weather disruptions may take several weeks to resume normal operations, industry experts said on Friday, helping to push up fuel prices.

About a fifth of oil processing was halted by power outages, shortages of natural gas and water this week.

Average retail gasoline prices rose 6 cents on the week and are up 9 cents in the last month, to $2.33 a gallon, the American Automobile Association said. It forecast inventories would fall, keeping prices higher through month’s end.

“We are 2-1/2 to three weeks away from restoring most operations” at affected refineries, said Andrew Lipow, president of Houston-based consultancy Lipow Oil Associates.

The refinery shutdowns will depress prices for U.S. crude oil and widen the spread between U.S. and Brent crude, Paul Sankey of independent energy researcher Sankey Research said in a note. He forecast “heavy pressure on US crude prices from returning supply into no demand from a major refining outage that will last 2-3 weeks.”

U.S. crude futures fell 1.5% on Friday, to $59.60 a barrel, as producers signaled plans to restart production. U.S. crude is up 22% year to date. U.S. gasoline futures on the New York exchange rose to $1.805 per gallon.

“The spreads tell me that crude oil will come back quicker” than refining margins, said Robert Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho Securities USA.

Refinery operators are assessing facilities and may need to repair any damage to pipelines, cooling towers and other equipment before slowly and carefully restarting, Lipow said.

Shortages and high prices for natural gas have also affected refiners. Texas officials this week asked natural gas suppliers to prioritize deliveries to electric utilities and residential customers, leaving less of the fuel to supply refinery operations, Lipow said.

Slowly resuming electricity and water needed to power the plants also is likely to cause delays at Texas Gulf Coast refineries beyond what is normal after business-pausing natural disasters such as hurricanes, he said.

Ford Mustang Mach-E Web Landing Page Leaks With Specs, Prices, Details

Ford Mustang Mach-E Web Landing Page Leaks With Specs, Prices, Details

Someone in web development at Ford goofed. Our experience was that the link returns a 404 error in some browsers, but not in others, and our browser worked. And no, we can't confirm that this is a genuine Ford web page with genuine facts and figures 鈥?it certainly appears to be, but do take all we're about to relate from it with a grain of salt. All of the links on the landing page are dead, but a video of the new electric crossover and details on its five trim levels are there. That link will certainly die momentarily, so let's dig in. As to the looks, the Mustang Mach-E 鈥?which we'll call "Mach-E" from now on 鈥?is what we expected based the thinly camouflaged prototype recently spotted, right down to the lack of door handles. A looping vid on the landing page reveals the First Edition AWD model. There are sequential LED turn signals in front, above headlights partitioned by three vertical LED DRLs akin to the pattern on the Audi TT.

Other than the Mustang badges on the front and the tailgate, the only other identifiers appear to be on the lower leading edge of the front doors. There's no Ford badge anywhere. Even the wheel center caps display Mustang graphics. A tinted panoramic roof fills the space overhead, over an interior playing up the minimalist possibilities. A traditional steering wheel gets controls on the spokes, and behind it, a 10.2-inch digital cluster. To the right of the steering wheel, what we'll guess is the start/stop button rests on the instrument panel. In the center of the dash resides a 15.5-inch, vertically-oriented rectangular touchscreen with some kind of dial-looking appendage at the bottom. For cargo, there's 29 cubic feet behind the second row, 59.6 cu-ft behind the first row 鈥?and a front trunk with 4.8 cubic feet. There are two batteries: SR, for standard range, and ER, for, naturally, extended range.

鈥?The Select trim comes in either RWD or AWD, paired only with the Standard Range (SR) battery. Ford intends the trim to have around 255 horsepower in RWD and AWD guises. Torque figures will be around 306 pound-feet for the RWD, 429 lb-ft for the AWD. Sitting on 18-inch, painted aluminum wheels, Acceleration to 60 mph is around mid-6 seconds with RWD, mid-5 seconds for AWD. Range for the rear-driver is around an EPA-rated 230 miles, dropping to 210 miles with all-wheel drive. 鈥?The California Route 1 comes in RWD only and only with the ER battery. The targets are 282 hp and 306 lb-ft, giving it 27 hp more than the Select RWD. Estimated range is 300 miles. Sitting on a "magnetic-painted with sparkle silver" 18-inch wheel with a black aero cover, the 0-60 time should be about mid-6-seconds. 鈥?The Premium trim presents the most choice, offering both powertrains and both batteries.

The standard battery in RWD puts out 255 hp and doesn't list a torque figure, but we'll posit that it's the same 306 lb-ft of torque as on the Select. The SR battery with AWD returns 255 hp and 429 lb-ft. The ER battery in RWD makes 282 hp and 306 lb-ft, in AWD gets 333 hp and 429 lb-ft. Wheels on the Premium are 19-inch machined-face aluminum with high gloss black-painted pockets. 鈥?The First Edition comes only in AWD and with the extended battery, gunning for 333 hp and 429 lb-ft and a 270-mile range. It gets the same wheels as the Premium trim, and a mid-5-second 0-60 target time. 鈥?The GT trim's spec table doesn't list battery options, only that AWD is the sole drive option. With the GT on 20-inch cast aluminum wheels with an aero cover, Ford wants a 250-mile range and a 0-60 time under 4 seconds. Don't take our word for this, though 鈥?have a look at the spec tables in the gallery above, and let the parsing begin. Add to the comments below.

The Sexy 2019 Jaguar XE Luxury Sedan Car Is Here

The 400 Sport is just available with the automatic transmission and aluminum shift paddles. The raving mad scientists in Coventry additionally calibrated the eight-pace computerized transmission to deliver quicker shifts and the torque-vectoring AWD system to carve corners more successfully. Compared with the Mercedes Benz C-Class and BMW 3-Series sedans of this world, the X-Type was extra Ford than Jaguar. To create an even more exotic model, then, can’t be terribly simple - particularly if you happen to consider that extra energy is a must for any in-home tuning arm, suppose M from BMW or AMG from Mercedes. All-wheel drive ensures that it’s much more usable and exact than it ever was previously. Next, we headed to the slalom course, and it’s here that I found the only fly in the F-Type ointment. The F-Type I examined is nowhere to be found among the many sixteen different builds Jaguar now provides.

The Jaguar F-Type SVR shall be made obtainable in Coupe and Convertible type. The F-Type is the latest in Jaguar’s lengthy record of thoroughbred sports cars and is a front-engine, two-seater convertible with highly effective rear-wheeled drive and curves like an excellent-mannequin. Alan Taylor is the host of a 3 hour Tv present, “The DRIVE with Alan Taylor”, which is centered round the newest automotive information, car take a look at drives, and business automotive specialists. The latest additions, the F-Type SVR Coupe and Convertible, are the most targeted yet. The fast, sweeping turns proved the merits of the AWD system, which is engineered to make the SVR really feel like a correct, rear-wheel drive efficiency automobile. Now, I’m not suggesting that SVO revert again to the rear-wheel drive lunacy of the F-Type R, I simply wish they'd saved the transition of torque a little extra gradual. “There is much more F-Type in the XE than one would possibly think,” he says, and having driven each on the same day we see his level.

From an lodging standpoint, taller people would possibly find the automotive a bit awkward to get into as a result of low seating position and moderately broad doorsills, but very comfy as soon as situated. Now, don’t get me improper, I absolutely love this automobile. But when you consider pricing, this automotive is a fierce competitor. Created by Rain Prisk, it depicts the F-Type R with a revised roof and rear finish that transforms your entire look of the car. The Jaguar SVO staff has definitely hit the candy spot with the F-Type SVR. Driven by a passion for something on four wheels and a stubborn will to succeed, he moulded a crew as pig-headed as him to create a medium that would adequately talk the magnificence of the vehicle to an unsuspecting audience. The most enlightening factor about this check wasn’t that the SVO staff had managed to reign in the F-Type, whereas making it even quicker, however the truth that they’ve made it even more compliant than earlier than. The only factor extra thrilling than the pace is the sound.

This is a machine that’s as a lot about emotion and fervour as it is about pace and precision. The F-Type R has a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 that produces 550PS, which allows it to accelerate to 100km/h in just 4.2 seconds - so, by all accounts, it a fairly particular machine. The F-Type SVR comes powered by a 5-litre Supercharged V8 engine that produces 567 bhp and develops seven-hundred Nm of torque. First, they extracted extra efficiency from the supercharged 5.0-litre V-eight engine; in contrast with the F-Type R, the SVR produces 25 more horsepower and 14 further lb.-ft. The driving place is superb, the seats and steering column are electrically adjustable, although I discovered the seat adjustment switches tough to fathom at first, but once you do you may superb tune your driving place to go well with. Performance is paramount and hence, the automobile can do a 0 to one hundred kmph sprint in simply 3.7 seconds before hitting a prime speed of 322 kmph.

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Variable valve timing has been a feature on all gasoline Jaguar engines for many years, and now the technology is making its way into the diesel: the new Ingenium engines benefit from a cam phaser on the exhaust side. Electric trucks will continue to make their way into the market, finding niches where they make economic sense today. Warranty Direct’s Reliability Index places Jaguar above its premium rivals (Audi, BMW and Mercedes) in the manufacturer standings, but all these carmakers sit quite a way down in the bottom half of the table. Along with Jaguar, more rivals for Tesla are coming, including models from Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and others. The I-Pace leads a slow-forming wave of electric-vehicle introductions from luxury marques including Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche. The I-Pace also offers style, luxury, and an allure that has heretofore been a Tesla exclusive among EVs. Any electric car beats any gas car when it comes to efficiency, but some EVs give a harder score smackdown than others. In this configuration, two identical electric motors—one to power each axle—give the I-Pace all-wheel drive and the easy speed that comes from 394 horsepower and 512 lb-ft of torque.

Near silence, anyway. When I put my foot down, I can’t suppress a giggle as the I-Pace rushes up the freeway on-ramp. And I can’t wait to get back onto the freeway ramp, where I’ve got the room to stomp the pedal. The segment is about to get a lot more crowded, though. But where a Range Rover can carry a 27-gallon fuel tank and run for hours between (more expensive) gas station stops, Callum’s team could only make a battery so big without trade-offs in weight and space. The difference matters: It means the Tesla can squeeze 310 miles out of a smaller, lighter, and cheaper 75-kWh battery. My total energy consumption for the trip, as recorded by the I-Pace’s computer, was 41.6 kWh per 100 miles. Total system output is 394 hp and 512 lb-ft of torque. The automatic AWD system is up to all of it, meaning, I will guess, that any real-world E-Pace buyers should be in good shape for snowy weather and the occasional dirty jaunt.

Jaguar also plans to have the system included throughout their line up, and also in corporate sibling Range Rover as well. That might well start ringing alarm bells when you’re talking about an electric Jaguar. In addition, the Model 3 feels so capable on a twisty road because it sets up and recovers well by nature of its squatty stance and low center of gravity. In addition, the roomier model can handle the space and weight demands of a big battery. Not just how far can you go without plugging in, but how fast you can refill the battery. For now, they’re typically few and far between, so range still matters. Now, you could take the view that the I-Pace bears very little mechanical resemblance to any Jaguar before it, and so enjoys a clean slate. The best part of this sci-fi theater is that it can be turned off, at which point the I-Pace becomes utterly serene. The roomier model can also handle the space and weight demands of a big battery. 10,205 less than a Tesla Model X 75D, which earns a 238-mile range estimate from the EPA.

If not, this will be flagged and filling stations on the route that are within range are shown on the map: tapping on one of them is all it takes to add it as a waypoint. Yet he also pointed out that technology will eventually, roughly, even out among all automakers. Our thanks go out to EVANNEX. However you see it, it’s true that more than a couple of the cars on the launch event we attended encountered trouble, although it should be pointed out that these were very early pre-production examples. No single electric vehicle, whether it’s built by a century-old automaker or a West Coast startup, will inspire tens of thousands to cancel their reservations, abandon their Tesla-centric Twitter handles, and turn their backs on Elon Musk. It's called the Velite 6, a plug-in hybrid that will launch this year in Buick's largest market, with a full-electric version, shown in the lead photo above at right, coming later. JD Power's 2017 Vehicle Dependability Study makes for more positive reading, placing Jaguar just above the industry average for reliability, and again above its premium competition. Sure, I'd like more than 180 horsepower, but this crossover's 318 pound-feet of torque is more than enough to make daily driving chores a relaxed affair.