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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 82.77 | -0.13 | -0.16% | ||
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 84.38 | +0.37 | +0.44% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 83.60 | -0.14 | -0.17% | ||
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Mars US • 187 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 15 mins | 2.540 | +0.008 | +0.32% |
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Bonny Light • 23 hours | 84.38 | +0.37 | +0.44% | ||
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Girassol • 23 hours | 85.24 | +0.29 | +0.34% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 83.60 | -0.14 | -0.17% |
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Peace Sour • 22 hours | 71.58 | -0.10 | -0.14% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 22 hours | 74.63 | -0.10 | -0.13% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 22 hours | 81.58 | -0.10 | -0.12% | ||
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Central Alberta • 22 hours | 71.98 | -0.10 | -0.14% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 74.86 | -0.10 | -0.13% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 75.00 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 8 days | 69.25 | -3.00 | -4.15% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 83.20 | +0.37 | +0.45% |
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Kazakhstan Setting the Pace in Caspian Naval Race
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Pushing Electric Cars on Capitol Hill
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Government Insiders: Get Ready for the Gulf "Dead Zone"
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Power to the People: The Dash for Gas
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The great game among hedge funds now is to find the babies that have been thrown out with the bathwater because of the Gulf oil spill disaster. The halving of…
Defense and Security in the EU
As EU defense ministers prepare for formal meetings within the Foreign Affairs Council, the hope is that this will provide political impetus for the refinement and further development of the…
U.S. Gas Producer Taps Sovereign Funds Amid Offshore Oil Anxiety
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The New Challenges and Benefits of Wind Power
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The Value Player's Take on BP
OK, I promise I won't talk about BP again until the stock breaks one way or another. But no sooner do I put out the call to buy the pariah…
Notorious Private Military Company Blackwater up for Sale
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Why the Deepwater Horizon Commission Will be Operating in the Dark
Amid the other news this week, including the President's address to the nation on the Gulf Coast oil disaster and his meeting with BP officials yesterday, the announcement on
Why Energy Independence has Eluded the U.S.
I have noted before that every president since Nixon has talked about the need to get the United States off of foreign oil and moving toward energy independence. Jon Stewart…
A Bankrupt BP - Worse For The Financial World Than Lehman Brothers?
The BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has rightfully been analysed (mostly) from the ecological perspective. People’s lives and livelihoods are in grave danger. But that focus has equally…
Buy Those Who Sell Shovels, Not Miners
A careful study of the history of California's 1849 gold rush shows that while almost all the miners went broke, those who provided the picks, shovels, transportation, and banking services…
