Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Oiled Up

There are a few essentials that a completely relevant in this recession. Employment is from my point of view, the number one essential.

High up on the list is the price of oil. The price per barrel dipped on Monday and Tuesday, but today it rose a bit.

Its simple, higher oil prices equals more inflation. At this point its not a huge deal but start seeing gas at $4 per gallon along with a 10% unemployment rate, and then we have a recession along with inflation. It doesn't get much worse than that. That would be the worst recession in our lifetime coupled with the worst inflation.

Reuters: Oil rises on stock market, U.S. inventory data
U.S. crude settled 56 cents higher at $71.03 a barrel, having earlier traded down to $69.00.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Check out on the McClatchy reports Recession map out yesterday where NO Recession exists in America! Any surprise that the best economy is in TEXAS, OLK. etc. The RED heartland . BV$H and his corrupt cronies made damn sure those places were flush even now. So don't expect any breaks on OIL from the OILY crowd. They look @ themselves as a Indep. nation. We need to invade Texas and take the OIL and liberate the people! I bet they'll greet us with flowers!

Jim Sande said...

I love it, forget Iran, let's invade Texas!.

I think we should go global with it. We'll give the neocons a run for their money.

Glynn Kalara said...

U mean go viral don't u?