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Petroleum Prices Set Records in 2011
Without much fanfare, the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy released a report on 2011 energy commodity prices yesterday. It confirmed that crude oil and key petroleum products set annually averaged price records last year. This largely snuck up on us, because it occurred without the kind of dramatic price spike we experienced in 2008 or in the oil crises of the 1970s.
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/9556/Petroleum-Prices-Set-Records-in-2011
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm/9556/Petroleum-Prices-Set-Records-in-2011
