2011年4月12日星期二

Pay more and less - Houston Chronicle of pumping

HED goes HEREOil fell Monday after Muammar Gaddafi the Libya seems to accept a ceasefire with rebel forces plan, increased Libyan that wrong gross likely return to the world markets soon. Crude prices were also pushed down as the Monetary Fund International cut its forecast for us growth this year and Goldman Sachs warned that the United States consumers begin to conserve energy to high prices of oil. ? Benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude for may delivery lost $2.87 to settle at $109.92 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Precede goes here? point n ° 1: Here? issue No. 2: HereASSOCIATED PRESSNEW YORK - Soaring gasoline prices are starting to take a toll on American drivers.Across the country, people are pumping less in the tank. For five weeks in a row, they bought less gasoline that a year ago.Purchased pilot gallons less than $ 2.4 million for the week of April 1, a decrease of 3.6% since last year, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse, which keeps track of the volume of gas sold to 140,000 stations throughout the country.So Americans carved last time was in December, when snowstorms forced to stay home.Before the decline, the demand has increased for two months. Some analysts expected the trend to continue because the recovery was picking up with the addition of 216,000 jobs nation, in March.Instead approximately 70 per cent of the chains of major station of the nation say sales have fallen, a survey of March by the oil price information Service. More than half reported a decline of 3 per cent or more - the sharpest since summer 2008, when gasoline soared past $4 per gallon. Now it is creeping toward $4 again.The p rice are back faster people to reduce. The essence is 32% more expensive that it was in April 2010. Americans pay 340 million dollars a day to fill a year ago.Price shot then disorders in North Africa and Middle East irritated - of the energy markets.Without a gallon of fresh lead regular averaged $3.77. Monday to Houston, drivers paid an average of $3.71 per gallon. Most analysts are sticking to the forecast of a maximum of $4 per gallon, even if some have predicted $5.Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service, revised his prediction that the price would peak at $3.75 per gallon this spring. "I expect now that gasoline retail prices peak between 3.75 $ $4", he wrote recently.However, crude oil prices fell Monday, after Muammar Gaddafi the Libya seems to accept a ceasefire with rebel forces plan.Across the country, some drivers are already hunting for cheaper fuel, sometimes with the help of mobile telephony applications. Others are check bus and train schedules, to reconsider the transport transit or trade in their SUVs for models more energy efficient.The San Antonio Express-News has contributed to this report.

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