The Wall Street Journal attributes the superspike to issues we have discussing here for some time.
We discussed here months ago how diesel was driving the price of oil higher.
In the weekly Inventory thread, the falloff in oil imports from Mexico and Venezuela, along with diesel export demand from Chile and China, was also discussed there in detail. Did I mention that we also had a thread called
OPEC Exports Head East as Asian Supplies are Depleted?
But I thought you might like to know that the WSJ also came to the same conclusions we already had.
Who said the media will never get PO?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')rude Leaps Nearly $11, In Fresh Hit to Economy
By NEIL KING JR.
June 7, 2008
At the same time, oil analysts say there are fundamental forces keeping prices high. Despite soaring retail prices, the demand for diesel -- the lifeblood fuel of the world economy -- continues to rise as consumers in places like China and Chile turn to generators to fill in for failing electricity grids.
The investment bank Morgan Stanley is predicting that prices will top $150 a barrel as the U.S. market -- which consumes nearly a quarter of the world's daily output -- confronts tightening supplies of crude. Oil stockpiles in the U.S. have fallen far below the five-year average, a report from the bank points out.
One factor leading to a crimped U.S. market: Persian Gulf suppliers are shipping increased quantities to fast-growing Asia, at a time when exports are falling sharply from two of America's largest suppliers, Mexico and Venezuela.