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what investor dumped all his oil stock just before the price of oil went from $ 146 per barrel to under $ 40 per barrel ?

Clinton, a U.S. senator from New York, made perhaps the most audacious energy claim of the campaign. If elected, she told voters in New Hampshire, I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price of oil, the New York Daily News reported and the Clinton campaign confirmed.

I might found out a gas means the price of Oil was about at least 0/Barrel.
Dow was about 14,000 and lost around 60% of the money in months between 2008 and 2009.
14,000 Dow in 2007 and gas in 2008. Today is 11,400 Dow and Gas (/Barrel).
that is true.
i know that.

supply and demand like everyone sez – why doesn’t our government simply suspend the trading of Oil Futures until such time as the price of oil adjusts back between 50 – 75%?
Wouldn’t this be more simpler than any off shore drilling that will take four to five years to put into effect and only reduce [...]

avail, did you fail econ class? of course it would knock down the price of oil and gas.

Please help me explain why we would expect an increase in the price of oil (which is an input in the production of goods and services) to lead to both recession and inflation.
Thank you.
it is my homework, not my mind. Thank you for both your answers.

how does scarcity problem affect the price of oil?

From the middle of 2003 to about 2006 April or May, energy stocks have followed the price of oil. All at once oil goes up while energy stocks go down. What’s causing that to happen?

Are the big guys in charge of the oil companies just pocketing the difference in cash, or is it still being paid off from when the price of oil was more expensive… I don’t get why if the price per barrel has gone down to below , the price of gas hasn’t dropped!
I live in [...]

I would like to know why we continue to buy oil from OPEC nations but yet we drill off of our own shores, pipe in from Alaska, and own several rigs in the pacific near Mexico and refine it here? Why are we not using our own fuel and rather ship to an off shore [...]

for instance… the price of oil increases 1 dollar per barrel and the price at the pump goes up 10 cents?

How do you think each of the following affected the world price of oil?
a) A major war began in the oil rich Middle East.
b) The Alaskan oil pipeline was completed.
c) People drove less.
d) Oil was discovered in the North Sea.

The price of oil has risen by at least per barrel over the past days, yet the USO ETF has fallen 2-3% in this time. What’s going on? I thought USO was supposed to track the price of oil.

In book,it says "when the price of oil in the world market rises sharpy,we dcan readily predict that the cost of manufacturing cars in Japan will rise and Japanese auto exports will declin"
I really don’t understand how oil can affect manufacturing cars?Is oil needed to produce a car?and how auto exports will declin??
Thanks a million!!!

It is crazy to see the price of oil in 3 folds now compared to few months ago. I wonder what will happen to the citizens of the countries who does not have oil revenue and are completly dependant on importing oil when their country is not that developed.

So this sounds terrible I know, but I bought shares in a reasonably speculative oil and gas company last Wednesday morning (Aus time). What sort of effect would the recent explosion have on oil price in both the short and long term, and if it did increase would you expect that to be observed in [...]

democrats/liberals are to blame for the mess we are in today with their socialist policies,the high price of oil,gas,food,the home loan defaults,and iraq,are results of democrats/liberals policy of denying americans the ability to develop oil reserves on U.S. soil all the problems we have today can be traced back to the lack of oil production [...]

There were lots of (supposed) reasons why the price of oil recently rose to record levels — hurricane season approaching, instability in the Middle East, disruptions with the Alaskan supply, etc, etc.
However, in the recent days, the price of oil has suddenly dropped 25%-30%. What happened to generate that large price change? What [...]

How much higher does the price of oil have to get before the American people demand the drilling take place where the Democrats have so far blocked and vote those who block the drilling out of office?

You’ve see the price of oil drop nearly , but the price of the pump as not even moved an inch. However, when the price of oil was skyrocketing the gas companies were changing the price at the pumps up to 5 times a day. Can someone help me explain this?

Which conditions change the world price of oil and natural gas? Can anyone explain to me that. I want to receive serious answers!

If you cannot inflict physical damage worldwide, the best way to cause problems is economically. The price of oil is a clear act of economic terrorism and war and should be dealt with accordingly. The only reason I can see that the world leaders aren’t doing anything about it is that they must be profiting [...]

I need to know how the price of oil has changed over the past 12 months, and what factors affected these changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think the oil companies is just letting them happen so that they can raise the price of oil.

nobody expected oil to drop so far, so fast. i was wondering how much
lower do the people on y/a think the price of oil will go?
what do you think the price of oil will be when it bottoms out or do you
think we are at the bottom already? thank you.