There really is a Cushing, Oklahoma. I've been working at Platts for more than 20 years, have always vowed that someday I'd visit there, and still have failed to do so. Someday.....
Not only is there a town of Cushing, there's a daily newspaper in Cushing. A quick search of the archives didn't turn up too much about the steep contango of earlier this year. In fact, the word contango doesn't turn up once.
But given that crude oil storage tanks in town aren't exactly hidden, the people of Cushing do know that their little spot on the map is important to the broader world of oil. Just take a look at this column from the Cushing Daily Citizen, to get an idea of what the people of that famous town think of their prominence in the world oil industry.
One disappointment: the high school team nickname is a very pedestrian Tigers. Something like the Fighting Forward Curves would have been a lot more interesting.
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