Oil just closed over $100.00 per barrel yesterday on speculation. OPEC will supposedly cut supply in their meeting next month, and a refinery in Texas blew up. All politics aside, doesn't it feel good to own a hybrid right about now?
Oil prices retreated somewhat today, I kinda figured they would as the run-up yesterday was caused mainly by emotion relative to the refinery explosion, rather than being related to fundamentals. If you think about it, shouldn't that cause crude-oil futures to decrease in price more than increase? I mean, it is the functional equivalent of the price of hog-bellies going up when a meat-packing plant burns down, makes no sense and should actually have the opposite effect, because there's going to be a bottle-neck in the chain and, hence, a potential supply glut of the raw-material in question. And YES, it does feel good to own a Prius right about now, and I suspect will feel even better a few months from now when gas surges to $4 per gallon this summer.....
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