Gas prices are set on global markets by the price of a barrel of oil.
The cost of a barrel of oil doubled in a year after the Islamic revolution.
Calls for action rise and fall with the price of a barrel of oil.
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Overall, however, the health-care unions appear to have held the government over a barrel of its own making.
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Boe is the amount of energy contained in a barrel of crude oil.
Should we expect to see some change in prices of a barrel of oil now because things have changed?
Yet it would be wrong to conclude that Andersen was simply one bad apple amid a barrel of good ones.
As a result, today it takes 22% less gold to buy a barrel of oil than it took 40 years ago.
In real terms, Mr Seetharamdoo says the cost of a barrel of benchmark US traded oil is much less than current levels.
And just as cars will go further on a gallon of gas, our economy will go further on a barrel of oil.
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The big question of course is, will that work and will it hold the slide in the cost of a barrel of oil?
Yet a barrel of oil is only 15% more expensive than at the start of the year: nasty, but hardly a grave threat.
Cost structures have risen dramatically, with the price of finding and producing a barrel of oil surging over the past decade plus, Chanos said.
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As a direct consequence, the price for a barrel of the black goo has reached a level last seen before the panic spike in 2008.
The Basra refinery escaped the war mostly unscathed, but it gets only 6 gallons of gasoline from a barrel of crude, one-third that of modern plants.
Natural gas was selling in the teens then, in roughly a 1:6 ratio to the energy value in a barrel of oil, and pricing was proportionate.
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The first camp worries that the lofty bill for a barrel of oil is damaging the world economy and a further price spike could destroy demand.
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Sources of foreign oil are unreliable, as is the price: with every international crisis, especially in the volatile Middle East, the cost of a barrel of oil soars.
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But California now has a low-carbon fuel standard that takes account of the amount of carbon dioxide released in the delivery of a barrel of oil to market.
What about the contango effect (when the price of a barrel of oil for delivery in six months is higher than an identical barrel bought on the spot market today)?
You can count up 5.8 million BTUs (that's how many BTUs a barrel of oil yields) from a wood stove, or a diesel engine, or a microprocessor, or a laser.
To produce a barrel of synthetic crude through mining takes roughly eight hundred and ten megajoules, which is the energy content of about an eighth of a barrel of oil.
The fuel pellets typically contain around 10 milligrams of fuel, and if all of that were consumed it would release the energy equivalent to that from burning a barrel of oil.
Plotted as a graph, the line representing the price of a barrel of oil price in gold has crossed the horizontal line representing the average price (0.0735 ounces of gold) 27 times.
In American brewing's early days, a barrel of whiskey brought more at market than the same of beer, so for farmers liquefying their assets, so to speak, stronger stuff made more sense.
The son of a vaudeville performer, he pioneered "eatertainment": showcasing knife-juggling chefs and opening new restaurants with a flourish of Japanese drummers, priests and a barrel of sake broken for good luck.
The cost of a barrel of North Sea Brent crude hit a record before pulling back Thursday when priced in euros and British pounds, two currencies that have been weakening of late.
In the absence of massive new finds of oil, technological or other impetuses for reduced U.S. and Western demand, the Chinese competition will not only further increase the cost of a barrel of oil.
Since 1999, the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy a barrel of oil has simply caught up to the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy an ounce of gold.
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