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Louisiana Light • 1 day | 86.49 | -0.63 | -0.72% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 88.45 | +1.94 | +2.24% | ||
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Mars US • 174 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.725 | -0.009 | -0.33% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.90 | +0.45 | +0.50% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 88.45 | +1.94 | +2.24% |
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Peace Sour • 10 hours | 76.01 | -0.55 | -0.72% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 10 hours | 79.06 | -0.55 | -0.69% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 10 hours | 86.01 | -0.55 | -0.64% | ||
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Central Alberta • 10 hours | 76.41 | -0.55 | -0.71% |
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Eagle Ford • 1 day | 79.29 | -0.04 | -0.05% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 1 day | 79.25 | -0.50 | -0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.50 | +0.50 | +0.68% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 87.02 | -0.29 | -0.33% |
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Crude Oil Traders Coming Under Government Scrutiny
Betting on the future generally receives the stamp of immorality when elected officials and consumers come out on the losing end. President Barack Obama and the European Union both recently…
Rising Inventories Could Push Copper Prices Down
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Methane to Methanol to Gasoline for $2.85 a Gallon
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Take a Ride in the New Short Junk ETF
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World Oil Forecasts and Hubbert’s Peak
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A Sensible Look at the Food vs Fuel Argument
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It's Time for Obama to Spook the Oil Markets
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Breakfast With Fed Governor Bob McTeer
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Getting Even With Big Oil: Taking on ExxonMobil
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Are the signs pointing to a Commodities Price Correction
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Why Falling Resources and Rising Prices Demand a more Thoughtful Energy Policy
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Abiotic Oil and Energy Red Herrings
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Making Wind Energy More Efficient
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Azerbaijan Finding New Energy Customers in the Middle East
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Canada Plans to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions with $1.3 Billion CCS Investment
Canadian authorities have given the green light to a C$1.24 billion (US$1.3 billion) carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plant in Saskatchewan, which aims to slash annual greenhouse gas emissions…
Why Do Environmentalists Hate Capitalism?
It has been twenty years now since first glasnost and then the collapse of the USSR lifted the curtain on the appalling environmental record of Soviet socialism. Over that same…
Where Can We Expect Zinc Prices to go From Here
Reading the runes for the zinc market has become quite a challenging exercise. The price has been one of the success stories (if you are a producer) of the global…
The Mirage of Western Countries Lowered Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In many developed nations, increased energy efficiency has effectively lowered emissions of carbon dioxide. However, the cuts in advanced economies are merely an illusion, as manufacturing and dirty industries have…
Central Asian Governments Preparing for their Own "Arab Spring"
Like the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia also suffers from poverty, corruption, heavy-handed governments, widespread unemployment, and scant opportunities for the young. All too aware of the similarities,…
Is Alternative Energy Really at the Mercy of Rare Earth Elements?
Always ready to air the other side of an argument, I return to the matter of whether Rare Earth Elements (REEs) and their impending scarcity are the Achilles heel of…
