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Oil retreats from all-time high
Saturday, July 05, 2008
CNN Money -- NE YORK (AP) -- Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel Friday from record levels set a day earlier on hopes that tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear program could ease and cut the chances of American or Israeli military action against OPEC's second-largest oil producer.

Iran on Friday gave an undisclosed response to an international offer of economic and other incentives if it suspends a central part of its nuclear program.

Iran's ambassador to Belgium presented the response to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels, Iranian state TV reported.


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Saturday, July 05, 2008
CNN Money -- NE YORK (AP) -- Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel Friday from record levels set a day earlier on hopes that tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear program could ease and cut the chances of American or Israeli military action against OPEC's second-largest oil producer.

Iran on Friday gave an undisclosed response to an international offer of economic and other incentives if it suspends a central part of its nuclear program.

Iran's ambassador to Belgium presented the response to European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels, Iranian state TV reported.

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corgone
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Message Posted: 7/7/2008 5:39:56 PM  Ignore corgone Report Abuse
Isn't it kind of funny how Iran made an UNDISCLOSED response. Makes you wonder just what kind of response it was. Why is the UN still being nice/nice with them about their nuclear activity anyway? Are they scared? Besides, a one dollar drop is only like not even two percent or something. Let's see some real numbers.=~)
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letmathe
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A drop in half by the end of summer?
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See, I predicted a drop and it happened! Down to $70 a barrel by Aug 08!
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Tropical storm Bertha has strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Hold on, it's going to be rough this week.
TankerToadOH
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Tropical storm Bertha has strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. Hold on, it's going to be rough this week.
domer2
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need 25 a barrel
Blackice
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gagal31525 if you have a 401k or other retirement plan. Look to see how much oil stocks you own.
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uh-oh
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When it drops by 25% then we can think it's a good thing. Small retreats like this one have been followed by big increases.
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I hear what you are saying rbdesigns. Let the price of oil drop, and you can expect the price of gas to drop in about 2 weeks. But, Let the price go up, and you will see the increase in gas prices about 2 Hours later.
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Oil down over $4.00/barrel Monday morning....let's hope this continues.
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Does President Bush own oil stock? The price of gas is hurting low and middle income families.
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A dollar change in a 42-gallon barrel translates to about 2.5 cents in the gallon-price of gasoline. The evidence shows that speculators in unregulated commodities-futures exchanges have been responsible for most of the $70-plus per barrel rise since last year.
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I just don't even feel the pain anymore. I'm numb.
good2goVA
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need to fall further.
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Whoooopie! i can put a extra fume in my truck
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Not much of a retreat
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Oil prices fell more than a $1 a barrel on Friday and today crude oil is DOWN over $4. :)
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Run away, run away.....
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It should drop prices about 1/2 cent per gallon. Whoooopie!
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Very interesting~!
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We'll never benefit.
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Same old story!
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gas prices are creeping up again
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Half and I will celebrate.
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Big deal, not even 1%
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We can only hope the price will continue to fall.
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Good news has been hard to come by lately.
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A new trend . . .
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they won't, by the time the prices hit the pump they will have gone up again so they will forget about the down turn adn go right to the increase.
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still waiting for prices at the pump to drop a little
tbybee
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Woo Hoo $1 a barrel!
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Oil may retreat from all-time high but it will be back up there.
Just give it some time....
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Oil retreats and gas prices shoot up at gas stations over the weekend!!!!
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It's still too much!!!!
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You can't put much emphasis on Fri, since most American traders were off that day. National holiday here.

Today is a "Normal" trading day. Now today oil is down nearly $4 to 141.
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$1 is to retreat as drop is to bucket!
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Just wait for the first Gulf hurricane or more Iran unrest.
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it needs to retreat back to $50 a barrel
krucker
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Oh Good!!!............Gasoline prices should drop this week.........Right?
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supply and demand....oh yeah, and politics
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Houston and Dallas are onto a good thing; with OPEC and the Atlanta speculators taking the blame for the OUTRAGEOUS price gouging, the MegaCorp Oil barons can draw HUGE profits for their stockholders and get away with it. This will allow them to stockpile dollars for those times when exploration and drilling gets approved, but incomes are down because they actually have to go get the oil out of the ground - and that's HARD WORK, expensive work.
Price DROP!?!? HA! Forget it; not as long as we're still BURNING petroleum distillates!
Start running your car on compressed hydrogen, or coal gas, or an ethanol fuel that doesn't cost more in other fuels than the ethanol costs in corn or other agricultural products, and THEN you'll see Oil drop the price of a gallon of gas! FAST!
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you said it all mrkel
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Another all time high? Yea, SSDD!
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SSDD! It only goes down a few cents then goes up a dime.
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It amuses me that droping $1 per barrel makes the news, but an increase of $10 doesn't even seem to phase the news. I guess those increases are simply old news.
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A penny here and a penny there, and then it goes up 20 cents.
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S.O.S.
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Gotta drop more than that, to make any difference.
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