®
has become a highly recognized forecaster in recent years,having made appearances on/in
NBC’s
NBC’s
Evening News,NPR, USA Today, L.A.Times, N.Y. Times, and many others. Accuracy, reliability, and neutrality are GasBuddy
®
’s
mission with priceforecasting, and it is achieved with independent analysis featured in thisoutlook.GasBuddy
®
’s
service has won multiple awards from publications such asTime Magazine and PC World. In addition, GasBuddy
®
’s
smartphone apphas been mentioned in hundreds of print publications as well as major media outlets, and has been downloaded nearly 25-million times.It should be noted that this outlook is not indicative of what will happen,rather what we believe could happen, given specific inputs and differentimpacts and scenarios on production, supply, and demand. It should also benoted 2013 is the first time GasBuddy
®
is including diesel forecasts in itsrelease.Gasoline markets are complex, and this analysis is intended to take currentfactors and speculate on how
today’s
events may impact gasoline prices inthe future. GasBuddy
®
has worked to make these forecasts as reliable aspossible and to be understood by anyone with little or no background on oiland petroleum markets and economics.
About the Authors
Patrick DeHaan has been cited by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the
nation’s
most accurate forecasters and has been forecasting gasolineprices since 2004.Gregg Laskoski, a former reporter, was Managing Director at AAA Auto ClubSouth before joining GasBuddy in 2011.
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