April 23, 2012

Oil Prices Threatened By. . . Oil Prices

Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail


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The fivefold increase in oil prices over the past decade has created boom times in Alberta, in North Dakota and in crude-producing regions across the globe, but the era of $100-a-barrel oil may be sowing the seeds of its demise. . .

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