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title: OPIS Blog | Free Energy Market Information | OPIS Staff Report (4)
description: Get expert tips, practical insight and timely pricing and energy market information. OPIS covers spot, rack and retail markets with a focus on key topics in the downstream energy and chemicals industries including crude oil, gasoline & diesel, jet fuel, LPG & feedstocks, renewables & RINs, carbon credits, petrochemicals, coal, metals and mining, Mexico’s gasoline markets, bunker and shipping fuel, chemicals, and the convenience-store industry. Understand how the markets tick and keep up with changes that could affect pricing - and your bottom line. (4)
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##### Gas & Diesel

## [Fuel Prices and COVID-19: OPIS Blog Toolkit](https://blog.opisnet.com/fuel-prices-and-covid-19)

Fuel prices in 2020 have been rocked by COVID-19 and an oil price war.

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April 20, 2020 Share

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##### Gas & Diesel, Crude

## [Oil Spill Liability Tax Basics 2020 Update](https://blog.opisnet.com/oil-spill-liability-tax-update)

The federal oil spill liability tax came back after a one-year hiatus. Here's everything you need to know about what it 

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March 20, 2020 Share

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##### Gas & Diesel

## [COVID-19 Coronavirus:  Bleak Math for Refiners](https://blog.opisnet.com/covid-19-coronavirus-impact-on-refiners)

The outlook for U.S. refining operations is grim amid the downturn for futures and wholesale gasoline and diesel prices. 

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February 24, 2020 Share

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##### Gas & Diesel

## [U.S. Gasoline Price Trends for Gulf Coast, Northeast and Midwest in 2020](https://blog.opisnet.com/gasoline-prices-gulf-coast-northeast-midwest)

U.S. gasoline prices in 2020 are expected to follow seasonal trends, but OPIS will keep an eye on supply and demand

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February 18, 2020 Share

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##### Gas & Diesel

## [U.S. Diesel Price Trends for Gulf Coast, Northeast and Midwest in 2020](https://blog.opisnet.com/diesel-prices-gulf-coast-northeast-midwest)

Factors that will determine U.S. diesel price averages this year include the fallout from IMO 2020 regulations, the PES

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February 10, 2020 Share

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##### Renewables

## [What Will Carbon Credit Trading Look Like in 2020?](https://blog.opisnet.com/carbon-credit-trading-2020)

North American carbon credit market participants will navigate increasingly stringent cap-and-trade and carbon emissions tax

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