The Energy Report by Phil Flynn
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ODE TO $100 A BARREL
2/20/2008
Ode to $100 barrel oil: Why did oil go to one hundred dollar barrel? Well let me count the ways. There was no single event that accounted for yesterday historic move and yet it was a beautiful illustration of and lesson in market dynamics. In other words when the bull is raging you do not want to stand in front of it. Price is no object when it comes to a raging bull. This is especially true in the oil market where the fine line between over supply and under supply is getting finer every day.
There is nothing like a refinery explosion on a three day holiday weekend to set the stage for a bullish rampage. The run-up was more emotional than based on fact as for oil it may prove to be bearish for oil. Less oil to refine means more supplies building but yesterday such minutia does not seem to matter. It probably did not matter because there were other refinery issues as well.
The run-up in oil is not about current supply but about the perceived threat to future supply. Whether it's OPEC greedily talking about cutting production or empty threats of Venezuela cutting off supply it is obvious that this market is paranoid about less oil even in a slowing economy.
Current supplies are not the issue as oil supply is rising and gas supplies are at the highest level since 1999 one might think that concerns over supply might be muted yet with threats to supply growing ample supplies just are not enough.
Oil surged even more on rumors out of Nigeria that a militant leader in Nigerian custody was killed and threats of revenge by members of his group. Henry Okah a member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) was rumored to be killed while in custody on the Nigerian government. Mend Threatened a mass retaliation if Mr. Okah killed. The Nigerian government denied that one of its presumed leaders died from gunshot wounds while in custody and said that he is alive and in safe custody. The AFP reported that a security source in Abuja, who requested anonymity, backed up the presidential spokesman, saying: "Henry Okah is in our custody. He'll be arraigned for prosecution at the appropriate time." reacting to the denial, the Movem ent fo r the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said in an email to AFP: "If he's alive, let them prove it, let them show him to us."
If Mr. Okah is seen alive today it may knock a dollar or two off the price of oil, if the rumors persist it may keep buyers buying even against the backdrop of rising supply and slowing demand.
Which raises the larger issue, do high oil prices mean that the economy is growing or are commodities in a massive inflationary spiral that will eventually cause the economy to crash? For oil if April closes above $100 it could go to 120. If it fails to do so we could go back to 80.

