6 weeks are standard. If you want to keep it for longer it needs additives which increase price. Noone does that usually.

_air 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, seems like a standard supply level to me.

"California’s inventory has averaged just over 20 days of supply over the last five years (2019–23), compared with the U.S. average of 21.6 days."

	▲	wat10000 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they mean that it's 4-6 weeks until they hit zero, accounting both for stored products and the current rate of production/imports.
	▲	FrustratedMonky 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Usually when something like this is reported, it is because of some other milestone. Like, they have 6 weeks, on hand, in tanks already delivered. But, all of the ships in-bound are now done. After the war started, there was a record number of ships, already filled, already in-transit. But now they have all reached their destinations. So there is no more incoming.

rconti 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think in this case it's 6 weeks but _declining_, but that's a good distinction to point out.

	▲	Plasmoid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, but what's the burn rate? If it's going down at 1 day per week then it's not so bad. If it's closer to 0.75 days per day, that's much more serious.