Fuel stocks and strategic reserves and MTBE

Their prices have moved together.

Fuel stocks and strategic reserves (energy) and MTBE (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: fuel blending

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

MTBE is an octane booster blended into petrol, so it sits in product stocks in Asia and elsewhere. The basic organics proxy correlates with crude at 0.24 for monthly moves and 0.57 for yearly moves.

• 0.24 monthly change correlation
• 0.57 12-month change correlation
• 0.53 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.