SocraticGadfly: Oil to stay high for rest of year

March 10, 2008

Oil to stay high for rest of year

That’s the word from OPEC, which blames a mix of global oil-producing state tensions, speculation, and the economic inanity of the Bush Administration.

OPEC President Chakib Khelil said he thought the dollar would recover with the election of a new president, which would ease at least part of the upward pressure on oil prices, which hit $107/bbl change that, $108/bbl today. As I noted last week, if Big Ben Bernanke, The Worst Fed Head Since Greenspan™, rams through a 3/4 point rate cut next week, we will have $120/bbl oil.

Don’t doubt that OPEC doesn’t feel that way, either.

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