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Crummy Day For Crude Oil

Forbes.com -- The energy pits were a gauntlet Friday, as a stronger dollar put a dent in crude prices and oil stocks followed black gold lower.

Crude settled at $80.68 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 1.9% after a run-up earlier this week when prices approached $84 a barrel. Traders have been hoping that growth in emerging markets like China and India could help the commodity continue its surge off its February 2009 lows, but tighter monetary policy in those nations threatens to cool their economic growth.


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Submitted Mar 20, 2010 By: OnTheWater
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ENORMS
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Message Posted: Mar 27, 2010 5:03:49 PM

Oh those poor speculators......
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honda0105
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Message Posted: Mar 21, 2010 10:48:50 PM

up, down, down up... by the time these things even hit the electronic airwaves they're outdated by miles.
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Night Owl
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 9:48:15 PM

"Crummy Day"? Obviously written by an oil speculator that only wants to see higher oil prices no matter what.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 4:16:23 PM

Good!
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ENORMS
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 3:02:47 PM

Give us consumers a break!!
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skybiker
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 2:32:04 PM

I'm sure that crude oil's feelings were hurt terribly.......
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cpl11787
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 2:20:25 PM

ok then, still lots of money here though.
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BEngr
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:49:35 PM

When crude oil goes down I have a good day. Lately I haven't had too many good days because I have watched the price of crude oil more than double in the last year and the price of gas at the pump went from $1.55 to $2.89. That means I spend more each week on gas because I drive about the same amount of miles each week and my gas mileage has stayed the same as before. I have done my part by trying to conserve gas and this has had little or no impact on the price of gas at the pump. Some factors are beyond my control, such as the weak dollar and the fact that the oil speculators keep pushing the price up.
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TXGasPriceSpy
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:24:49 PM

Hope the price of crude continues to drop.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:23:25 PM

and should I ever find "them",
maybe we can cry together.
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pdcarver
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:22:02 PM

Still overpriced. Drill here drill now.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:21:25 PM

OKRifle: Perfect!
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jakTDI
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:21:13 PM

no, really, I just weep as I pay almost-3-dollars per gallon...
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:21:03 PM

Good news ... still waiting for gas prices to go down
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jakTDI
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:20:31 PM

I cry for them all.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:20:03 PM

"oil pimps", the new title for Speculators!
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Plebe2001
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:19:32 PM

That is not a crummy day it is a good day when the price of crude oil goes down.
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Bad day for oil pimps is a good day for Americans.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:15:00 PM

but, they don't lower the price at the pump,
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:14:54 PM

<< YAWNNN >>
- someone call me when it's back around $45/barrel - will ya?
Maybe then I'll buy gas form a station. 'Till then, I'll use what I've cached back @ under $2.00/gallon.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:13:48 PM

Still too high.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:12:13 PM

I love this, poor oil traders :( Who gives a rats but about the poor consumers? No tears will be shed from this guy over crude prices going down.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:07:21 PM

Up, down, up, up.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:04:42 PM

"AC-302" Great comment but unfortunately the oil traders don't give a "hoot" about the economy,fuel alternatives,nor anything else except themselves.

The almighty dollar rules!!!
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 1:03:11 PM

Would like to see $40.00!!!
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:55:52 PM

We've not seen that kind of decrease here on the west coast.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:53:03 PM

CLE gas prices are dropping today also, be $.07 - what was $2.79 is $2.72 today.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:49:13 PM

Nice to see a drop in the price of this "BLACK GOLD".
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:46:07 PM

noted
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:42:57 PM

And this will spell a crummy day at the pump for us consumers too!
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:38:14 PM

gas still to high
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DADDYBGG
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:36:06 PM

crummy day my foot oil should be in the 60dollar range
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:35:59 PM

Still double what they should be.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:35:03 PM

If only the prices were lower at the pump.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:35:01 PM

Speculators were do too busy counting their loot. Will be back for more next week. After all

Greed Rules
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:34:59 PM

With prices in the 80's how can they say "crummy?" Oh, yeah! They're still not gouging us enough.
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AC-302
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:34:26 PM

Petroleum is still about $25 or so too high. I wonder if the oil traders realize that if crude oil gets too high, it will wreck the economic recovery AND force more energy alternatives. Once someone puts capital in the ground to support an alternate energy project, they won't switch back to oil.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:34:00 PM

A good day for consumers.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:33:48 PM

still way to high
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:32:38 PM

These stories change minute to minute. why even post them?
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:32:21 PM

Those who still have money are trying to figure out how not to lose it.

Concern that Greece will pull down the Euro, so if your wealth is in Euros it would lose value. Maybe the U.S. dollar won't fall as fast, so sell Euros and buy dollars. The dollar ticks up, and it takes fewer of them to buy a barrel of oil.

Then when the folks in Washington do something yet again to drive down the value of the dollar, maybe sell dollars and invest in commodities, such as gold, oil, etc.

The rest of us are broke, but we only still have jobs because others still have money.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:31:52 PM

A crummy day for crude is a great day for the consumer.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:31:03 PM

China appears to have let us down. Good.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:30:04 PM

Who cares, not like we'll see it at the pump.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:29:43 PM

Gas edged up a bit here today.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:29:35 PM

Just another day
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:27:10 PM

A Crummy Day for Crude Oil is a GOOD DAY FOR ME! Stop Speculation Now!
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:26:44 PM

Another day of speculation.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:25:22 PM

Crude down but gas prices up 22ยข in one day.
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Message Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:21:14 PM

how has the value of crude oil changed, get the changing value of dollar out of the equation
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