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    Oil reaches US$133 - by frog



    Oil at $133 a barrel.  I have been tracking the price of oil for the last 6 or 7 months as it sneaked up towards and then over $100 a barrel, while the whole time saying I thought these high prices were slightly ahead of peak oil’s schedule.  I think the last time I posted [...] read more
    May 22, 2008 10:19 am - 31 Comments
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    More on the price of oil - by frog



    The Minister of Finance might be standing by Treasury and the Reserve Bank’s farcical attempts to pick the future price of oil, but it seems the Associate Energy Minister does not believe the price of oil is retreating from its current US$90 a barrel price any time soon.  He’s using it as a justification to [...] read more
    December 3, 2007 3:41 pm - 7 Comments