Monday, June 8, 2009

Stepping on the Commodities Gas Pedal, Mogambu Guru

06/08/09 Tampa Bay, Florida Oil has, finally, started to rise again, having been down below the breakeven point of pumping it, as they, too, have all kinds of rising costs like everybody else, as well as pension programs and myriad, large governmental entitlement programs to pay for.

And what is this “breakeven point” for oil? The last I heard, a couple of years ago, is that oil needed to be higher than $70 a barrel to make their relevant governments’ budgets balance, taxes and duties being what they were. (more)

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