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Renewable Diesel In The News – Part 2, What The Investment Bankers Missed

This is Part 2 of a four-part series reviewing my notes from a December 15, 2023 presentation made by Scott ...
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Hoekstra Trading Announces Hoekstra – Bloomberg Licensing Agreement

Hoekstra Trading is pleased to announce it has entered a data acquisition agreement with Bloomberg Finance LP that grants Bloomberg ...
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Renewable Diesel In The News – Part 1, Two Ways To Skin A Fat

Last week, Scott Irwin, Professor and Laurence J Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing at University of Illinois, presented "The RFS, ...
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D4 Renewable Identification Number (RIN) Theoretical Price Drops To 66 cents

The Attractor RIN price model is a spreadsheet that calculates the theoretical value of the D4 Renewable Identification Number (RIN) ...
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Welcome to the Future – Part 2 – High cost of gasoline sulfur specification draws attention from refiners and financial analysts

The price of the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur credit hit $3,600 in October, up by a factor of 10 since ...
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RIN Price Nosedive Part 5 – Dissecting The 2023 RIN Price Nosedive

The ATTRACTOR RIN price model is a spreadsheet that calculates the theoretical value of the D4 Renewable Identification Number (RIN) ...
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RIN Price Nosedive Part 4 – A Nosedive Is One Thing, A Cliff Is Another

In theory, a higher price for a commodity will attract new suppliers into the market who would not be profitable ...
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RIN Price Nosedive Part 3 – It WAS Foreseen, It’s Cause Was COMPETITION, And It WILL Continue

From January 2023, Hoekstra Trading clients were analyzing and acting on the growing gap between the D4 RIN theoretical value ...
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Welcome to the Future – Part 1 – Sulfur credit Investments Pay Off 10-Fold For Forward-Looking Refiners

Last month, the price of the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur credit hit a new high of $3,600 per credit, up ...
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SREs = Sustainable Revenues for Expensive lawyers

Will it ever end? What's the effect on RIN prices? What's the cost? The acronym SRE is something you will ...
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