Gasoline hit another record high price today. The price at most stations is $3.85 per gallon, while a few have been reported at $3.87.
From today’s Journal Gazette:
[…]Â A new Goldman Sachs prediction that oil prices could rise to $150 to $200 within two years seemed to motivate much of Tuesday’s buying, although a falling dollar and increasing concerns about declining crude production in Mexico and Russia contributed, analysts say.
The Energy Department raised its oil and gasoline price forecasts but also predicted that high prices will cut demand more than previously thought.
Light, sweet crude for June delivery jumped to a new record of $122.73 a barrel before retreating to settle up $1.87 at a record $121.84 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Oil prices have nearly doubled from about $62 a barrel a year ago, which Goldman sees as a sign the world is in the midst of a “super spike” in oil prices. Analyst Arjun Murti said in a research note released Monday that prices would ultimately force demand to fall sharply.
Tim Evans, an analyst at Citigroup Inc., countered Goldman’s analysis with a note predicting that crude prices could as easily fall to $40 a barrel as rise to $200 over the next two years because supplies are, as Evans put it, comfortable.
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