据普氏能源资讯2019年6月19日纽约报道，美国能源信息署（EIA）周三公布的统计数据显示，上周美国汽油需求创下了历史新高。
统计数据显示，美国隐含汽油日需求量——EIA用来衡量产品供应量的指标——在6月14日结束的那周里达到了992.8万桶，为1991年2月以来的最高水平。
此前的汽油需求最高纪录是在截至2018年8月24日的一周内创造的，当时美国汽油日需求量达到了989.9万桶。
美国汽油需求得到了6月份零售汽油价格走弱的支撑，这在一定程度上鼓励驾车者把更多的时间用在他们的汽车和卡车上。
EIA表示，从6月10日到6月17日，美国汽油平均价格每加仑下降了6.2美分。美国能源信息署说，目前美国全国平均汽油价格为每加仑2.67美元，比一年前低了20.9美分。
总部设在休斯顿的利波石油联合公司(Lipow Oil Associates)总裁安迪•利波(Andy Lipow)表示，原油和汽油价格走弱是美国汽油需求走强的重要原因，他补充称，美国经济扩张是另一个关键因素。“美国经济增长稳定，美国失业率非常低，”他如是说。
李峻 编译自 Platts
原文如下：
US gasoline demand reaches record high: EIA
Platts
June 19, 2019
US gasoline demand reached a record high last week, US Energy Information Administration data showed Wednesday.
In the week ended June 14, implied US gasoline demand -- which the EIA measures as product supplied -- reached 9.928 million b/d, the highest that figure has ever been in data going as far back as February 1991.
The prior record was set in the week ended August 24, 2018, when product supplied reached 9.899 million b/d.
US gasoline demand has found support from weaker retail pump prices in June, which have helped encourage drivers to spend more time in their cars and trucks.
The EIA says that the average US gasoline pump price fell 6.2 cents/gal from June 10 to June 17. With the national average price now at $2.67/gal, the EIA says pump prices are now 20.9 cents/gal below their levels from one year ago.
Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, said weaker prices for crude oil and gasoline are important for explaining stronger US demand and added that the expanding US economy is another key factor.
"Economic growth is steady and US unemployment is very low," he said.
