More And More Stories Of Increased Snow This Year; Bakken Will Participate -- December 20, 2017

From The Williston Herald:

• starting last night, snow starting to fall, accumulating
• 6 - 8 inches possible for Christmas
• I remember most of my Christmases in Williston having well less than five inches of snow

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Honda

The other day, I mentioned how happy I was with my Honda Civic, now several years old. Today, this from auto123.com, Honda Civic Type R is Auto123.com's 2018 Sport Compact Car of the Year. And, on top of that, there is the Civic Si. Something for everyone at all price points.

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How Big Is Amazon?

CNBC reported that the #2 US logistics distributor has 21 fulfillment centers, second only to Amazon. As usual, the reporter did not put that "21" into perspective. Does Amazon have 22 fulfillment centers? 35? 105?

So, I was curious. Look at these two data points. Remember that the #2 logistics distributor in the US [Radial] has 21 fulfillment centers. Now Amazon:

• Amazon added 26 new fulfillment centers in the US in 2017
• a year ago, January, 2017, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Colorado, Maryland, Florida, and Texas
• so how many fulfillment centers does Amazon have in the US? Are you sitting down? As of January, 2017, 214 facilities across the US

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Re-Balancing 

EIA announces a drawdown of 6.5 million bbls. US crude oil inventories now stand at 436.5 million bbls. Re-balancing is now down to 30 weeks. By the way, the drawdown was much greater than expected. Analysts expected a drawdown of  3.8 million bbls.

Week	Date	Drawdown	Storage	Weeks to RB
Week 0	Apr 26, 2017		529.0	180
Week 1	May 3, 2017	0.9	528.0	198
Week 2	May 10, 2017	6	522.0	50
Week 3	May 17, 2017	1.8	520.2	59
Week 4	May 24, 2017	4.4	515.8	51
Week 5	May 31, 2017	6.4	509.9	41
Week 6	June 7, 2017	-3.3	513.2	60
Week 7	June 14, 2017	1.7	511.5	57
Week 8	June 21, 2017	2.5	509.0	62
Week 9	June 28, 2017	-0.2	509.2	71
Week 10	July 6, 2017	6.3	502.9	58
Week 11	July 12, 2017	7.6	495.3	47
Week 12	July 19, 2017	4.7	490.6	43
Week 13	July 26, 2017	7.2	483.4	38
Week 14	August 2, 2017	1.5	481.9	46
Week 15	August 9, 2017	6.5	475.4	35
Week 16	August 16, 2017	8.9	466.5	30
Week 17	August 23, 2017	3.3	463.2	29
Week 18	August 30, 2017	5.4	457.8	27
Week 19	September 7, 2017	-4.6	462.4	32
Week 20	September 13, 2017	-5.9	468.2	39
Week 21	September 20, 2017	-4.6	472.8	46
Week 22	September 27, 2017	1.8	471.0	46
Week 23	October 4, 2017	6.0	465.0	41
Week 24	October 12, 2017	2.8	462.2	40
Week 25	October 18, 2017	5.7	456.5	37
Week 26	October 25, 2017	-0.9	457.3	39
Week 27	November 1, 2017	2.4	454.9	38
Week 28	November 8, 2017	-2.2	457.1	42
Week 29	November 15, 2017	1.9	459.0	43
Week 30	November 22, 2017	1.9	457.1	42
Week 31	November 29, 2017	3.4	453.7	41
Week 32	December 6, 2017	5.6	448.1	37
Week 33	December 13, 2017	5.1	443.0	36
Week 34	December 20, 2017	6.5	436.5	30