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Pain at the Pump: It’s Time to Start Thinking About $7 a Gallon Gasoline
U.S. consumers barely had time to get used to the idea of $4 a gallon gasoline before prognosticators started talking about $5 a gallon fuel.
And unfortunately for the U.S. economy, the worst is yet to come.
The average price of gasoline in the United States broke $4 a gallon for the first time Sunday, following a double-digit surge in oil prices last week. And despite an economy that appears to be in an increasingly fragile state, experts are already debating the potential for gasoline to hit $5 this summer.
But here’s what most economists aren’t saying yet: U.S. motorists could easily be…
10Jun2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedThat Pain You Feel at the Pump is From a Dollar Crisis, Not an Oil Crisis
It’s unfortunate that the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ruling last week that U.S. currency is unfair to the blind, did not make the next logical step and declare it unfair to everyone who buys gasoline.
In their search for explanations as to why oil has surged past $130 per barrel, Washington, Wall Street and the financial media are as clueless as cavemen after a freak summer snowstorm. Despite the head scratching, the blame game is nevertheless in full force.
Speculators and big oil companies are being trotted out as scapegoats, and increased margin requirements and taxes on windfall profits…
29May2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedSoaring Oil and Gasoline Prices Worry Cost Conscious U.S. Consumers
The effects of soaring oil prices are finally trickling down to the pump and consumers are feeling the pinch.
On Friday, oil futures hit a new record of over $126 per barrel. Prices jumped 7.4% last week, with crude oil for June delivery trading as high at $126.20 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
“Oil is a safe haven because of the weak dollar and how badly the financial sector has been doing,” Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Winchester, Massachusetts, told Bloomberg News. “There are also geopolitical concerns about places like Nigeria and Venezuela that are propping…
12May2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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