Midwest Conventional Stocks Very Low; RFG Not As Extreme

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• Midwest gasoline stocks (including blending components which are used to make RFG) are very low. Total gasoline stocks at the end of May are about 13% lower than the five year average for this time of year, and the lowest ever since 1981 when EIA began collecting this data.

• With the addition of a new RFG region, St. Louis, into Midwest, one would expect RFG and blending component stocks to increase in total. But they did not. They are at about the same levels as we saw in 1998 and 1999 at this time of year. St. Louis added about 18% demand to the RFG market in Midwest, but without a corresponding increase in overall inventory levels.