Oil smashed through record highs Friday, cruising past $75 a barrel on continued fears of a supply disruptions in Iran and Nigeria and reports of spot gas shortages on the U.S. East Coast.
The tense international situation could start eating into demand and oil could spike to $100 a barrel if the U.S. attacks Iran. U.S. average gas prices moved closer to the $3 a gallon mark Friday as spot shortages were reported along the East Coast.
America's trade deficit has been setting records with such frequency that it seems almost tiresome to hear it again: Another month, another $68.5 billion.
Trade gap will continue to rise. The gap between what America imports and what it exports is growing so rapidly and relentlessly that it is provoking new concern about how long
the world's largest economy can play borrower and consumer to the world. It's clear that the US trade deficit cannot go on galloping ahead ever increasing billions a year indefinitely,"
World Oil Reserves millions of barrels Saudi Arabia 261,750 Canada180,000 Iraq115,000 United Arab Emirates97,800 Kuwait 96,500 Iran89,700 Venezuela77,685 Russia48,573 Libya 29,500 Mexico26,941 Source: U.S. Geological Survey
World demand for oil is expected to increase by 54 per cent in the first 25 years of the 21st century, according to the Energy Information Agency of the U.S. government. To meet that demand, the world's oil-producing countries will have to pump out an additional 44 million barrels of oil each and every day by 2025.
Much of the growth in demand – about 40 per cent will come from Asia. Its daily oil need is expected to double by 2025, thanks mainly to rapidly growing economies in China and India.
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