OPEC Is Winning The Battle To Get Americans Hooked On Oil -- Again -- Jack Kemp, Reuters -- September 24, 2015

This is really cool. Reuters appears to be reading my blog -- echoing what I've been saying for quite some time and then very explicitly just the other day -- and now Reuters seems to be quoting me almost exactly: "OPEC is winning battle to stimulate gasoline demand." LOL.

OPEC's bid to curb production of high-cost oil is taking time to produce results but the organisation is already making good progress on its other objective of stimulating fuel demand.

In the first half of the year, gasoline deliveries into U.S. local markets jumped by 4.3 percent compared with the same period in 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The United States is the world's largest gasoline consumer and its gasoline demand accounts for 10 percent of all crude and condensates produced worldwide.

In the first six months of 2015, U.S. gasoline consumption rose at the fastest rate since 1985 - another occasion on which the real price of oil halved over 12 months and stimulated demand.

U.S. gasoline sales have fallen or stagnated for the last decade as the high cost of fuel encouraged motorists to use their cars less and buy smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles.

But the sharp drop in fuel prices since the middle of last year is stimulating demand again by encouraging more driving and motorists to purchase much bigger and heavier vehicles.