HOUSTON -- BP Products North America Inc. will no longer be supplying branded fuel to some jobbers in Pennsylvania, according to a company spokesperson.

The announcement was made to affected jobbers on Dec. 11, 2009, and goes into effect June 30, 2010, Scott Dean told CSP Daily News. BP will stop supplying branded fuel to customers out of six third-party terminals in central Pennsylvania—including Altoona, Harrisburg, Mechanicsburg, Northumberland, Sinking Spring and Wilkes-Barre—and withdraw from 26 counties in central Pennsylvania.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Taylor Oil Cos. has bowed out of retailing for the second time in 11 years, selling its eight Accel convenience stores to Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.'s Circle K Southeast division, as reported in a CSP Daily News Flash yesterday.

In June 1999, Taylor Oil, Winston-Salem, N.C., formed ACCEL Marketing LLC "to build and operate new convenience stores with a large gasoline offering," according to the company's website. That was the same year Taylor sold the 60 stores in its previous retail offering, ETNA stores, to Southeast consolidator The Pantry, now based in Cary, N.C.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. retail gasoline prices are expected to reach $3 a gallon this spring and summer, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which released its latest monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook yesterday. It is the first such report to include monthly forecasts through December 2011.

The EIA said it expects that the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, which averaged $62 per barrel in 2009, will average about $80 and $84 per barrel in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The forecast assumes that U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by 2% in 2010 and by 2.7% in 2011, while world oil-consumption-weighted real GDP grows by 2.5% and 3.7% in 2010 and 2011, respectively.