AS IT IS 2015-01-09 Oil Supply Swells Driving Prices Down The price of oil has continued to drop, reaching its lowest levels in more than five years. Many experts say one main reason is that oil supplies are high. Carl Larry is an oil and gas expert

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Oil Prices Ease, But Airlines Still Worried Jet fuel prices were about one-seventh of the expenses for a typical airline a decade ago - consuming less of the budget than pay for pilots and other workers. But International Air Transport Association sp

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BP oil company has announced its first major success in containing a massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers inserted a metal tube into a broken pipe on the sea floor, to siphon oil into a ship on the surface. BP engineers implemented the f

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Texas Town's Fortunes Rise And Fall With Pump Jacks And Oil Prices AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The middle class in America is constantly shifting and changing shape. Since the 1970s, it's shrunk decade by decade. We also know that income inequality is growi

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By Michael Bowman Washington 23 April 2008 Since the beginning of the decade, gasoline prices in the United States have roughly tripled, while the global price of a barrel of oil has risen even more. The trend has inflicted pain on consumers and petr

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Investors are seeing new opportunities to make money on oil. The price of crude oil rose to its highest level in 15 months on Wednesday amid speculation that a weak dollar and cold weather across many parts of the world will boost energy demand. But

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