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Crude Oil Falls a Fifth Day as US Fuel Demand Drops Further
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Bloomberg -- Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell for a fifth day to the lowest in almost four years after a report showed U.S. fuel demand extended declines because of the country’s deepening economic slump.

The average amount of fuel products such as gasoline and diesel supplied by refiners for the past four weeks was 7.9 percent less than a year earlier, according to a U.S. Energy Department report yesterday. Royal Dutch Shell Plc said that a fire broke out at its Pernis refinery in the Netherlands, the largest in Europe.

“The macroeconomic picture is bleak, the engine of capitalism is stuck right now,” Stephen Schork, president of the Schork Group, said in a radio interview from Vienna. “There’s no reason why crude oil can’t go below $40 in the next six months.”


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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Bloomberg -- Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell for a fifth day to the lowest in almost four years after a report showed U.S. fuel demand extended declines because of the country’s deepening economic slump.

The average amount of fuel products such as gasoline and diesel supplied by refiners for the past four weeks was 7.9 percent less than a year earlier, according to a U.S. Energy Department report yesterday. Royal Dutch Shell Plc said that a fire broke out at its Pernis refinery in the Netherlands, the largest in Europe.

“The macroeconomic picture is bleak, the engine of capitalism is stuck right now,” Stephen Schork, president of the Schork Group, said in a radio interview from Vienna. “There’s no reason why crude oil can’t go below $40 in the next six months.”

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I10Express
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At this rate the oil companies and OPEC will ask for a tax payer bail out next.
RideKT22
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Message Posted: 12/5/2008 10:11:19 AM  Ignore RideKT22 Report Abuse
Day trading oil futures big money these days....oh, how I wish I would have got short in August...I would have bought all you a tank of Saudi gas :-)
MajorSteve
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Diesel still needs to drop. It is $1 more per gallon that gasoline, and for no reason!
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Will be under $40 next week!
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Drop that crude oil price, US Fuel Demand Drops Further.
And, crude oil drops for a 6th straight day, 7th, 8th, 9th…
‘Below $40 a barrel in the next 6 months.’
What goes around, comes around OPEC!!!!
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good
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Good news. Keep conserving.
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bad economy=low gas prices.
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Let's get below $40!
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Now gas prices need to follow as quickly has oil has
beanDE
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Wow, if oil goes below $40 a barrel, that would put gas prices around what they were 15 years ago!!
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Lets see what happens today....
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old news
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Conservation, conservation.
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I heard that crude oil bottomed out under $45/bbl this morning. Good news. Oh, and that idiot Hugo Chavez has to be crying the blues. After all, he promised all these social services to his people. But they were predicated on oil being at least $120/bbl forever more. And of course, what goes up, must come down. I'm glad Chavez has managed to screw himself!
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" the engine of capitalism is stuck right now"

Nope, it's not stuck. Sure the market is down which contributes in turn drive the oil down. BUT maybe just maybe the over-inflated prices at the pump early this year got more people to think about using less, and other new items say we where on a three year decline in fuel demand currently. This means we were on a declining demand when you used a good market to send the price up. So you raised the price as high as possible while you could and drove demand down more. I only hope we can keep the demand declining.

You reap what you sow.
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Guess it's too early for new news.
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Keep on conserving, more than ever. We need to keep lowering the demand.
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Happy Days are here again!!!!!
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Well it is the supply and demand and demand is way down for a number of reasons . . .
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$1.55 here today - great news for me! Now I can afford to buy some soft toilet paper.
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Too bad the economy had to break for it to drop.
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Fall Fall!!
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$40 honestly is a bit low.
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I like $40.
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Keep conserving. Sit on it and twirl OPEC.
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$40.00 is a good price..
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let's keep conserving!
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It will come back up as soon as unemployment goes down. If unemployment does not get better, it doesn't matter.
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Falling this morning too.
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Keep conserving!
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<$40 a barrel would be good. Is the measure of a thriving economy the amount of oil that is consumed? Can we not conserve and still have a productive, growing economy?
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below 43 right now
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Awesome.. $1.78 here
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I was reading where we might see $1 a gallon again in 2009.

That'd be nice.

I never expected gas to drop back down to $2...it's $1.6X in my area.
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We conserve and oil prices drop. Just think what would happen if we started drilling more at home AND if our government would establish a national energy independence policy. Just don't leave the Chris Dodds and Barney Franks in charge. Look how well they watched our mortgage lenders.
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to be expected with demand down and the economy in the dumps

[Edited by: AnObserver at 12/5/2008 9:36:21 AM EST]
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people haven't stop buying gas it's just less people because of all the lay offs
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Good
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Who know which is right up or down! I hope it is down and stays down for a while. We all need it down! come on 40 a barrel!
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For years we were told demand was up while it was actually down and now we are told it is both up and down.

The truth is that demand is at about the same level as it was for 2001 or 2002. We were supposed to keep increasing demand and we did not.

So, when you see the story that demand is up compared to a year ago, remember that it is still way, way off from where it was projected to be and much lower than it was 5 years ago.
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even paying the terriest 1 penny is to much for there oil. we have plenty right here.....
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The press can't get anything right, demand is up, demand is down. Sometimes I think they write just to justify their salaries.
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keep it comming
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NO WORK NO GAS!!!! This is a very bad sign. 46 more days and the IDIOT is gone. Let's hope we will be able the breath a little easier.
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SHOWBIZK give Glaarides a break ...

Gas Prices Available - check
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Consumption --- Don't see it
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No job, no money, no gas.
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