Friday, May 16, 2008

US to Halt Strategic Petroleum Reserve Purchases

by CalculatedRisk

From AP: US will stop sending oil into strategic reserves

Although 76 thousand barrels is a small percentage of the 85 million barrels per day of world demand (about 0.1%), this could make some difference in the price because both the supply and demand curves for oil are very steep.

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