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Oil Prices 24/7

Monday March 10, 2008
Want to keep up with oil prices? No need to slog through Bloomberg's energy-prices site or the Wall Street Journal's commodities reports. You can bookmark oil-price.net's permanent, real-time graphic. If you have a web site or a blog, you can put the oil-price dashboard there by simply cutting and pasting the code provided, as I did below. And there it is.

One problem: the arrow keeps pointing up lately. Oil-price futures have risen almost $20 in less than two months thanks in large part to the collapsing dollar. Oil-price records have been set in nine out of the last 10 trading sessions. What that means for you is rising prices at the pump, at the grocery store, at your department store, and on down the line of basic, oil-impacted necessities.

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March 15, 2008 at 11:23 pm
(1) Kami says:

They will squeeze us for every last dollar and then dramatically switch to nuclear energy once they have that market locked up. But unfortunately with earthquakes increasing in frequency and intensity, there will be a few nuclear accidents and then their game will be over…

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