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Re:The Real Price of Oil by ilurk on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @05:38AM (#10295298)
Excuse my conspiracy theorist but this article almost sounds like PR.

#1 World Oil Demand Still Growing

http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/articles/Black-Dog-Ar...

#2 The Dow Jones still looks pretty good despite the tumble to 2014 levels

https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX%3A.DJI&ei=flkKVsud...

#3 Shangai index it at 2014 EOY levels

https://www.google.com/finance?q=SHA%3A000001&ei=mFsKVrjhEYu...

#4 Crude oil price is at 2009 and 2004 prices

http://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-char...

So either the oil price is being pushed down now, or it was pushed up before on multiple occasions, and will liked be pushed up again somewhere in the future.

Re:The Real Price of Oil by jdimov9 on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @06:12AM (#10295373)
Both. Saudi Arabia has been artificially inflating the price of oil for a number of years and is now artificially keeping it low to hurt competitors. Unfortunately for them, this is already hurting Saudi economy more than anticipated and is increasingly looking like a fatal mistake.
Re:The Real Price of Oil by progmal1 on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @10:06AM (#10296355)
"#1 World Oil Demand Still Growing"

I suspect the difference is that at a per GDP basis demand is not growing.