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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices surged nearly 4 percent to a record over $140 a barrel on Thursday after Libya said it was studying possible options to cut output in response to potential U.S. actions against producer countries.
U.S. crude settled up $5.09 at $139.64 a barrel, after hitting an all-time high of $140.39 earlier, eclipsing the previous record of $139.89 a barrel hit on June 16. London Brent crude settled up $5.50 at $139.83 a barrel.
As I have stated in another thread, the Memorial Day weekend marked the beginning of the end of the American empire with 4 million miles less than previous year. GM stock was hardest hit with worse still coming.
CIBC economist Rubin predicted a 200 dollars a barrel of oil transformed to $7.0 a gallon of gas. I am paying close to $5.00 now with premium gasoline, what are you talking about.
It only take a roadside suicide bomber to disrupt the oil pipelines in southern Iraq, the pirates in Somali to hit the oil tankers, the rebels in Nigeria to ****** the workers and sabotage the Nigeria oil field and Libya to cut the oil production and bump the cost to $200.00 a barrel of oil. It does not have to wait until 2012 as CIBC economist Rubin stated.
As the world economy continue to be unstable, the price of oil will continue to go up and up. It will take 3-6 months to have the real ripple effects to hit the supermarkets but the immediate effect will be the travel industry including airlines, couriers etc.
We go from slightly over 20 bucks a barrel when Bush took over in 2000 and reached $140 dollars in less than 8 years. We have to take a hard look at McBush policies and should we have another 4 years of McBush.
I firmly believe if the gas price goes to $5.00 a gallon, the automobile inudstry will crumble and GM will soon shut its door because GM is not ready for fuel-efficient cars, hydrid cars, hydrogen cars, etc.
What is our future? Are we going to sit here and wave the white flag ?
Reduce consumption, carpool, take the mass transit, walk, bike and reduce consumption and addiction of gasoline !
It is each and everyone`s responsibility to reduce consumption of gasoline !