The speculators that held out on the end of the bubble got burned. Right now there is such unease in the markets in general that speculators are holding onto their cash. While the 1.25 per gallon is nice, part of it was a result of oversupply due to rampant speculation (buying oil contracts with no intent to use the product) when the price was on the climb. Now the producers (OPEC and Russia) are throttling back the increased production. I really believe that the OPEC nations are gunning for a $50 to $60 per barrel price. That should result in a $2 - $2.50 per gallon price.
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It is interesting to see that the price of oil is staying around $40 a barrel. Is this because the US is cutting production while the inventories of crude oil and gasoline seems to keep rising? I wonder why right now that gasoline prices are climbing when oil prices are falling. Sounds like the oil companies sticking to us to me.
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You seem as hopeful as me FarSeer |
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Normally the price of oil goes and the price of gasoline goes up. But this week has been not normal. Now the price of oil went down about $10 this week and the price of gasoline rose about $0.15 this week. Now today oil has risen about $2 so far but the price of gasoline has fallen about $0.10. I will never understand this.