Q&A with Marcel Coutu

Marcel Coutu: Natural gas is in vast supply around the world but oil is not. Crude oil production in most of the producing countries in the world is in decline.

All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don

At these prices you are seeing some conservation somewhere, but it is being more than offset by increased demand somewhere else. Whether people are still going to be buying at $200 a barrel I don’t know, but by the time we get to $200 it will be the supply side that will keep things tight and moving upward.

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