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/ 3 November 2004
Oil prices are now running well above $50 a barrel, partly owing to short-run supply shocks, such as the Iraq conflict, Nigerian labour disputes, the conflict between Yukos Oil and the Russian government, and Florida’s recent hurricanes. Experts may say that short-run supply factors caused the recent price increases, but the price increases will nonetheless lend credibility to scarier long-term stories.